Newton: Up and down

In view of the recent ups and downs of companies, stock-prices, currencies and economies a quote from Newton is interesting: "What goes up must come down". I guess its related to the 2nd and third thermodynamic law? While researching his quotes I came across another one that touches more on social interactions, I assume: “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

What is strategy

If you can touch it it's tactics, if you can't it's strategy.

Quote: Tiha von Ghyczy

History doesn't repeat...

… itself but it rhymes.

Source: Mark Twain.

Salt the organization

1) Use old staff - only "salt" a little bit with own people
2) This transfers culture
3) Bring people early on together (in seminars, training, leadership development sessions)

Source: Charles Cooley


1) Treat everyone the same no matter how long with the company (10 minutes or 10 years)

Source: Hugh McColl

If you have no plan

...any road will bring you there.

Quote from ?

Mozart on writing symphonies

“Well, I always could, and I suspect I wasn’t the only one. It’s not something that can be passed on from one person to another. I remember, late in my short life, an even younger person came to me and said, ‘Maestro, I want to write symphonies. Can you give me some advice?’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘my first piece of advice to you is that you wait until you are a bit older. You are too young yet to write symphonies.’ ‘But Maestro, you were writing symphonies when you were nine years old!’ ‘Yes, and I was not asking advice, either.’”

Darden Quotes

• "We asked them to reach the other side of the lake, but we didn't tell them how to do it." - Danaher employee during company visit
• "I continue while you think about it." - Brandt Allen
• "A sign with 'Cat' on my dog, doesn't make it a 'cat'." - Brandt Allen
• "How did you know to do it in this way." - Favorite quote of a student from Elliot Weiss
• "If you haven't tried it - how do you know it doesn't work?" - Danaher guys
• S-I-P-O-C = Supplier, Inputs, Process, Output, Customer - Consultant in Operations class
• "Experience is seeing things that other people don't see" - Brandt Allen
• "Poka-Yoke" - A process that is so designed that it cannot fail.
• "I'm not so much investing in the horse as in the jockey." - Private Equity Investor
  

Pirat vs. Navy

Steve Jobs once said: "I'd rather be a pirat than work for the Navy!"

Reputation & Character

The 1957 alumni class said: "Reputation is how you are seen by others, character is how you are seen in front of yourself."