“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.” IfsPersonsEnergyHalfQualityLeaderBattleExcitedDenyGreat Leader Author:Gale Harold
“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.” MenWellsMadeFactsLyingEasyHalfLeaderHeroComfortSpeechClaimsMythPostsDictatorSpySubversiveHalf TruthBiographersElected Leaders Book:Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name
“Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.” NeedsHardPurposeOrderWinningHalfLeaderFocusInspireEnthusiasmMentalityHeartedHalf HeartedHard To TrustSporadic Author:Sebastian Coe
“Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.” IfsUsedPoliticsSpeakNationsSoundHalfLeaderDistanceFeministErdogan Author:Elif Safak