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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

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.

Tags: technology, great, people

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

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.

Tags: gratitude, people, human

About Author
Margaret Heffernan (born 16 June 1955) is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker. She is currently a professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management in the UK.
Heffernan is the former chief executive officer of five businesses and is the writer of five books that explore the areas of business and leadership. She teaches entrepreneurship, mentors executives as part of a leadership development company, and makes presentations for corporations, associations, and universities.
While Heffernan's first two books focused on leadership and entrepreneurship and how they impact women in the workplace, her overarching theme is recognizing and releasing the talent that often lies buried inside organizations, under-valued and under-rewarded because it is unconventional.

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

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.

Tags: work, father, mother

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Margaret Heffernan

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Tags: work, thinking, people

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

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.

Tags: day, mother, flowers

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Margaret Heffernan

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Tags: great, poor, being

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Tags: innovation, conflict, ideas

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Margaret Heffernan

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Tags: travel, sad, know

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Margaret Heffernan

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Tags: you, feel, invisible

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...

Margaret Heffernan

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...

Tags: goals, myself, ambition

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Tags: conservative, profession

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Tags: truth, talent, free

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...

Margaret Heffernan

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...

Tags: day, creativity, changes

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Margaret Heffernan

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Tags: innovation, creative, world

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Margaret Heffernan

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Tags: power, words, yourself