Quotes

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Quotes Questions

• Feel free to use anything that you find
• attractive, annoying, inspiring, true, false,
• whatever
• But cite where you got it dialogic BV,
• Velp, The Netherlands
• martijn_at_dialogic-leadership.com

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Any market is contestible.
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Are you going to adopt a wait-and-see-policy or
are you going to do something?
4
True leaders endorse and enable leadership in
others.
5
Knowledge per sé is obsolete. The power to
aggregate it takes over.
6
Do you want control (fear n loathing) or to
embrace change (love n fun)?
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Its not about dividing the world in suits and
ponytails Its about truly accepting yourself
and others as they are.
8
Quit sticking labels. Start thinking of your
organisation as a bunch of people, not an org
chart
9
People in roles, not functions. Dynamic teams,
not business units.
10
Any job is a project.
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You yourself are a project too, BTW.
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The greatest job you can do in any job is making
it obsolete. ASAP.
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Promote people that make mistakes. It breeds
courage.
14
Projects should be staffed based on their desired
output, not on who provides the politically
correct input.
15
Are you a writer, a talker, a listener, a
thinker, a mozer, a ....? And your team
members? Your boss? How do they see you?
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We hope you get paid to think. If you dont share
this, think. Think hard.
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Look, feel, be. Use your senses!
18
You get paid to work 40-something hours, right?
If you can do it in say, 24 hours, the rest of
the time is yours. To have fun inside the company
doing other things.
19
Do your Y! homework! When are you going to
learn?
20
Inspiration is in strange places.
21
When was the last time you read a book? Poetry?
Saw a great concert? Chopped some wood? Had sex
in a strange place? Painted a picture? Cooked a
great meal? (microwaving junk from the deli
doesnt count). Took your shoes off in the park
to feel the grass?
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Self liquidate your cost.
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The more you tell about you, the more youll
learn from the other.
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The more you listen, the more youll learn.
25
Keep it simple, stupid. If it aint, go back and
think harder.
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Does the sale legitimise the investment or does
the investment legitimise the sale?
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Whats more important your E.P.S. or having a
good time?
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Consultative selling for dummies turn on your
inner receiver and shut down the transmitter
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Dont stop doing things when your making
strategy. Block time for it and then test it.
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Thinking it up isnt hard. Getting it done is.
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I am the only one who really works hard and get
things done here. Time to work on your
communication skills, maybe?
32
What-the-fuck-are-you-going-to-do-about-it?!? I
want it solved. NOW. Try What the fuck are we
going to do to stop this happening next time and
how are we going to solve it ASAP? next time.
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Create decision points.
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Document them so you dont have to do the same
work twice.
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Idea people are the ones who leave you the
soonest if they get stuck getting leverage for
their ideas. Theyre also likely to become your
fiercest competitors. What are you going to do to
keep them?
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Do you want results or documented 09.05 to 16.55
attendance? And nag about it?
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If you havent laughed for a day, chances are
that you are taking it all way too seriously
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Are you passionate about what you do? If not, why
not?
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Innovation is often found in strange corners. Try
having a beer with the guy who runs your mailroom
or a shift in the factory.
40
Remember that whats an inch for you could feel
like a mile for somebody else.
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If you really want something to change, ask
yourself what made you want it. Explain that to
the others involved. Otherwise nothing much is
going to change.
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The biggest contradiction in terms is LINEAR
change.
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If you do not seek a constant dialogue with your
customers, forget finding customers altogether
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Sometimes it helps to throw someone in the water
to see if he swims. You can always jump in after
him and offer hot cocoa and warm towels later.
45
Create your own definition of freedom.
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If you have one problem, you dont have a
problem. Wait for some more. The solution you
come up with is bound to solve them all in one go.
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Do you say BUT or SO more often? (inertia vs.
action )
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Theres more beauty in wanting to make things
work than repeating that they dont.
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Start with what you have, rather than with what
you havent got.
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Men arent better than women. Nor are women
better than men. Theyre just different. (Thats
great and it might even make the difference
between the success and failure of a project)