Let's Be Inspired
"A company's culture is essential for strategy alignment. It sets the tone for how people think, behave, and make decisions."
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, 2019
"Culture and strategy are inextricably linked. A strong culture can drive the execution of a strategy, while a weak culture can prevent it."
Ruth Porat, CFO, Alphabet, 2017
"The new logic of management encourages organizations to abandon bureaucratic hierarchies and instead create lateral processes that encourage innovation, while emphasizing leadership that invests in people to help them achieve their full potential."
-Ed Lawler, 2000
"The new logic involves a fundamental shift from a mindset that views employees as costs to be minimized, to one that views them as assets to be maximized."
-Ed Lawler, USC, 2000
"In the future, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage will be an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition."
-Gary Hamel
"Investing in learning and development programs is an investment in the future of your organization."
-Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, 2007
"The best investment a company can make is in the development of its people."
-Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford Motor Company, 2006-14
“I would not give a fig for simplicity this side of complexity, but would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“You have a masterpiece inside you too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”
-Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, 1996
