“Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.” SelfBusinessTalentDegreesCapacityOriginalsBusiness SuccessCommonplaceUncommonOwing Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings
“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsEnoughWishEasyAbilityBusinessPositionPersonalityOughtHigherEssentialsTrainingCapacityTrainConvincedMagazinesDevelopingOrganizedExecutivesBusiness SuccessManipulate Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.” PeopleImportantEndsValuesCultureGamesBusinessVisionElementsCapacityAspectOrganizationStrategyEntrepreneurMarketingCorporationsMy TimeJust OneCollectivesMakeupCeoIbm Author:Lou Gerstner
“Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.” IfsKnowsWayMeanRunningKidsLostBusinessMistakeCompanyCreativeWorstAdultsCapacityOriginalsPreparedCome UpFrightenedWorst ThingsBe CreativeEducation SystemBeing Wrong Author:Ken Robinson
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” InspirationalInspirationMotivationalMotivationBusinessAttitudeFailureCapacityMental AttitudeSuccess Or Failure Author:Walter Scott
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” WorldInspirationalPersonsSoulMotivationalSuccessEnergyAbilityEffortBusinessCapacityAverageHatsAverage Person Author:Andrew Carnegie