For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. - Margaret Heffernan 1 Share Now -
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude. - Margaret Heffernan 2 Share Now -
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. - Margaret Heffernan 3 Share Now -
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true. - Margaret Heffernan 4 Share Now -
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. - Margaret Heffernan 5 Share Now -
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. - Margaret Heffernan 6 Share Now -
Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful. - Margaret Heffernan 7 Share Now -
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one. - Margaret Heffernan 8 Share Now -
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. - Margaret Heffernan 9 Share Now -
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights. - Margaret Heffernan 10 Share Now -
