Quotes About Impact

This dragon could change everything.

Her smile made him feel as if lightning were crackling under his scales.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

implementation science is more important than decision science.

Scare People with Sincerity

Second, and this is certainly related, those executives don't see the company's reason for existing as having any practical implications for the way they make decisions and run the organization.

a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And

So you have to be confident enough to do something that is potentially client-threatening." It

The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

this point is critical—no one but the head of an organization can make it healthy.

He wrote a simple question on a piece of paper: WHAT IS THE ONE THING I DO THAT REALLY MATTERS TO THE FIRM?

small gaps between executives high up in an organization become major discrepancies by the time they reach employees below

Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.

Every human being that works has to know that what they do matters to another human being.

That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes. While each of these tools and exercises can have a significant short-term impact on a team's ability to build trust

How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.

From page 90. This book was produced prior to the elementary school shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, which pushed hi-cap magazine prices much higher.

does it matter?

the stigma of severe mental illness leads to prejudice and discrimination. Stigmas are negative and erroneous attitudes about these persons. Unfortunately, stigma's impact on a person's life may be as harmful as the direct effects of the disease. Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1999). Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. American Psychologist, 54(9), 765–776.

You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not.

If Moroccans are dying in Indo-China, if it rains too much or not enough, if there is no work, if one's wife is sick and penicillin is expensive, or if the French are still in Morocco, it is all the fault of America. She could change everything if she chose, but she does nothing because she does not love the Moslems.

Today, many American Christians seem to mix up church and state. They believe the community of genuine believers in America is the people of God— both in heaven and on earth. But the nation of America isn't the people of God; we don't live in a theocracy. The sooner Christians realize this, the sooner the church can make a deeper impact as salt and light in society.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.