What makes a resource truly strategic – what gives it the capacity to be the basis for a sustained competitive advantage – is not ubiquity but scarcity.
Nicholas Carr
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QUOTE 11: Passion and purpose
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want…
QUOTE 9: Leadership
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
QUOTE 1: Crisis
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored. ― MICHAEL CRICHTON, AUTHOR, BOOK QUOTE FROM THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
QUOTE 2: Purpose
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. – Gary Hamel
QUOTE 8: Integrity
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
QUOTE 4: Customer feedback
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Clayton M Christensen