Daniela Katarzynski > Daniela's Quotes

“If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Leadership growth always precedes organizational growth.”
― Mark Miller, Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.”
― Mark Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.”
― Mark Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.”
― Mark Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“You can’t wait until you need a leader to start developing one.”
― Mark Miller, Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”
― Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
― Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”
― Jim Collins

“They just … don’t understand what you are. Or maybe they can’t fit you into their beliefs, and that scares them. The unknown makes us stupid sometimes.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“If you’re focused on moving from sign to sign, there’s no opportunity for happy accidents.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“I highly doubt many of them will feel that way, and anyway, you don’t have to worry about that.” “Why not?” Dex smiled reassuringly. “Because I’ll be with you the whole way.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“I tried being a vegan for a while, but I couldn’t live without cheese.” “They have vegan cheese.” “No, they don’t. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It’s filled with people. And you know how people are.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.”
― John Scalzi, Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb

“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

“If you have more than 3 priorities then you don’t have any.” —Jim Collins”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.”
― Jim Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“Jim Collins, the author of the business classic Good to Great, was once told by Peter Drucker that he could either build a great company or build great ideas but not both. Jim chose ideas. As a result of this trade-off there are still only three full-time employees in his company, yet his ideas have reached tens of millions of people through his writing.8”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“To avoid undesirable behavior, avoid the environments where it is most likely to occur.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

“But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There

“It works because helping people be “right” is more productive than proving them “wrong.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There

“If you keep your mouth shut, no one can ever know how you really feel.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There

“Improvement is hard. If it were easy, we’d already be better.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It

“It’s hard to help people who don’t think they have a problem. It’s impossible to fix people who think someone else is the problem.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There

“It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“If everything is important, then nothing is.”
― Patrick M. Lencioni

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable