Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes Quotes

“I see the most effective teacher being the one who facilitates learning in the same way a gardener facilitates growth, as opposed to the one who is just giving instruction.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Principles of a Poinciana School

“City Planning and zoning have huge impacts on a city’s ability to steward various kinds of capital wisely.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Students learn well through inquiry. We should embrace the students' natural inquisitiveness. We should also encourage students to ask more questions and better questions, and encourage them to use seeking as a means to finding answers.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Principles of a Poinciana School

“Gratitude is an amplifier of wealth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Companies with great leadership are simply more investable.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“City Planners, collectively, play a huge role in societies’ ability to steward capital wisely. With most of humanity living in cities, their efficiency or lack there of has huge implications for how people interact with resources. And from an ESG perspective, the condition of civilization can be largely measured by the interactions between people and resources”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“As leaders, sometimes we have to be willing to be temporarily disliked in order to be permanently loved.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“As a leader, it is possible to be both loved and respected. You don’t have to be a pushover to be loved, and you don’t have to be a bully to be respected.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A leaders’ goal is to help people, not to please people. Sometimes people resist what’s good for them and you have to give it to them anyway; not in a show of power, but as an act of love.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every job is a facilitator of transformation. We all have a tendency to grow into the job in which we are employed. It’s important to ask yourself, what kind of person is this job turning me into? If you don’t like the answer to that question, then it is in your ultimate best interest to find a job where you will like the answer to that question.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Supply chains have evolved into value webs. The emphasis is no longer only on supply and the perspective is no longer linear. Instead, emphasis is spread out among various interconnected parts and the perspective is holistic. In order to adapt, we have to ask ourselves more meaningful questions about everything.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In dated Industrial models, products and services flowed linearly from suppliers to manufacturers to distributors to consumers. But in a permaculture economy model, people and businesses are involved in a value web whereby they may each hold more than one of those roles and each entities role is more hybridized. It’s about cyclical co-creation and cyclical co-consumption.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Leadership is about advancing the team, not about advancing one’s self.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“A good leader has the ability to inspire action. If you can’t inspire people to act, you aren’t a leader.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“AI will be a critical enabler of human space exploration and of humans becoming a multi planetary species.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Circularity is critical to ESG.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials