Lawrence Bossidy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Relationship #People #The End Of The Day
At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#People #The End Of The Day #Strategy
Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Reality #Goal #People
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Heart #Reality #Organization
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#People #Twenties #May
People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Leadership #People #Needs
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Mistake #Self #Giving
I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Tenacity #Keep Going
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Simplicity #Doe #Programming
How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Organization #People #Function
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Accountability #Systematic #Execution
I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#People #Leader #Levels
If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Hurt #People #Ifs
Execution is the job of the business leader.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#Jobs #Leader #Execution

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