Michael K. Simpson > Quotes

“Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.”
― Michael Simpson, The Metamorphoses of Ovid

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. —Joel A. Barker”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Perhaps the best definition of coaching is “unleashing or unlocking the potential of another human being.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world. —Joel A. Barker Short-Term”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Ask the individual you are coaching: How much time and effort will you need to commit to pursue this opportunity? What one thing could you do each day that would get you closer to the goal? What habits do you need to form? What habits do you need to change or eliminate? So”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“cultivate a sense of initiative, speed of thought and execution, expert handling at high speed in restricted waters, and decisive action at close quarters—especially at night and in smoke-screens.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Every time you open your mouth, you influence the culture of the workplace. You have the opportunity to change and improve employee morale, engagement, and productivity. You can affirm worth and potential by providing encouragement and showing support for your people. You can ignite a fire within people. To”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“the man on the spot is likely to know best.10”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has published a set of ethical standards3 for coaches. Among other things, all professional coaches pledge to:”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“When top talent and future leaders leave an organization, money and precious capabilities walk out with them.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“It’s not the hard work that tires people out—it’s the fog!”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Empathy is not listening to someone in order to advise, counsel, reply, refute, fix, judge, solve, change, agree, disagree, or to figure the person out. Empathy is the ability to accurately reflect what the person is feeling, experiencing, and saying.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Hostile to new ideas until they had proved themselves in action,”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“You cannot conduct military operations in modern warfare without airfields which will allow you to at least establish temporary air supremacy.’139”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Cunningham acknowledged that he had been ‘Very crotchety these last few months and difficult in temper but we have had much to try us’.2”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“What legacy do you want to leave?”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“The Fleet has also run considerable and in my opinion unjustifiable risks in this operation which has been at the expense of all other commitments and at a time when these commitments were at their most pressing.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“I hope it will turn out that our policy of helping Greece is the right one. To me it is absolutely right but I much doubt if our resources, particularly naval and air, are equal to the strain.’47”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“He had a love of ‘childish fun’ and ‘a great sense of humour and loved bawdy jokes’.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Every time you open your mouth, you influence the culture of the workplace. You have the opportunity to change and improve employee morale, engagement, and productivity. You can affirm worth and potential by providing encouragement and showing support for your people. You can ignite a fire within people.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Build trust. Challenge paradigms. Seek strategic clarity. Execute flawlessly. Give effective feedback. Tap into talent. Move the middle.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“one of our key leadership responsibilities is to help people gain vision and strategic clarity in their jobs, careers, and in their business. Never forget your role as a leader is to help people through uncertainty, darkness, and the fog, so they get to their ultimate destination and achieve success.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“Britain emerged with the moral credit of having furnished the maximum of military assistance to her ally and this certainly earned the approval of the Americans.63 It revealed ‘the importance of the old military virtues such as toughness, good discipline, professional proficiency, ready resource, determination and the ability to take command’.64”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Churchill attempted to persuade Cunningham to relieve Tovey at a tête-à-tête at Chequers, drawing the firm response, ‘If Tovey drops dead on his bridge I will certainly relieve him. Otherwise not.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“There was a great strain on the little ships, which had to evade constant bombing and mining, and minesweepers and fighters were in short supply.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“it is not hard work that causes a person or a team to become tired; it’s the fog or the lack of clarity.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

“He replied, testily, ‘I suggest I must be allowed to be the judge of what can or cannot be done.’66”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“There followed utterly senseless, unhelpful and uncomprehending communications from Churchill.”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Cunningham recorded that Kirk’s landings ‘constituted one of the finest exhibitions of seamanship it had been his pleasure to witness in 45 years of sailoring’.60”
― Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

“Coaches ask insightful questions that help people gain greater awareness of their situation and help them reframe and creatively explore new and better ways to move forward.”
― Michael Simpson, Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations