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Margaret Heffernan

The medical profession is – and knows itself to be – endemically conservative and conformist.

Conservative, Profession

Margaret Heffernan

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.

Goals, Myself, Ambition

Margaret Heffernan

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Travel, Sad, Know

Margaret Heffernan

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

You, Feel, Invisible

Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Innovation, Conflict, Ideas

Margaret Heffernan

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Great, Poor, Being

Margaret Heffernan

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother’s Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that’s useful.

Day, Mother, Flowers

Margaret Heffernan

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Work, Thinking, People

Margaret Heffernan

In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

Work, Father, Mother

Margaret Heffernan

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

Gratitude, People, Human

Margaret Heffernan

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

Technology, Great, People

Margaret Heffernan

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.