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Margaret Heffernan (born 1955) is an international businesswoman, author, interviewer, and TED speaker. She is currently settled in the UK in the city of Bath and is a part-time lecturer at the School of Management of the University of Bath.

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[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Conflict, Inspiration, Mean, Motivation, Neurobiological, People

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

Buffer, Cubicles, Noise, Wall

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Feels, Invisible, Leadership, Making, Opposites

Silence is the language of inertia.

Inertia, Language, Silence

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Ambition, Believe, Cheerleading, Leadership, Necessary, True

There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

Change, Honesty, Powerful, Weapons

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Achieved, Building, Building A Business, Stamina, Takes

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Bad, Data, Disappointing, Leader, People

Big data will never give you big ideas. . . Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

Conjure, Data, Giving, Ideas, Imagination, Paradigm

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Business, Focused, Opportunity, Requires, Stay Focused, Turns

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Email, Faces, Telephone, Together

I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

Company, Online, Thinking, True, Value

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

Email, Hours, Invaded, Know, Sleep, Waking

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Action, Casualty, Executives, Firsts, Reflection

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

Choose, Issues, Organization, People, Silent

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Boss, Bullying, Corrupt, Promise, Redress, Supervisors

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Ability, Misuse, People, Think, Thinking

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Ideas, Mind, Minds, People

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Chambers, Inspiration, Model, Motivation, Thinking

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

Conflict, Get Real, Good, See, Thinking

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