"Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. Youâ€™ll know that youâ€™re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done."

-- Max McKeown

#Senior Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?”
“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.”
“I can be like a lioness when defending my people.”
“The insane little dwarf, Bush.”
“We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.”
“No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.”

Source : Beatrix Farrand, Carmen Messinger Pearson (2009). “The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)”, p.128, UPNE
“I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.”
“Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.”

Source : Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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