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Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan
American Businesswoman
Born: 1955
Business Great People Think Thinking You
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In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. Margaret Heffernan
Work Day Every Day Mother Father Parents Important Matters Every Too Father's Day Our One Day Count House Important Work Just Cut Us
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. Margaret Heffernan
Cell Phone Phone Become Sense Object Bear Adult Comfort Replacing Cell Transitional Toddler Belonging Teddy
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. Margaret Heffernan
Bullying Promises Positions Complain Way Those Corrupt About Bosses Powerless Safe Safe Way Redress Process Co-Workers
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude. Margaret Heffernan
Gratitude Respect People Depend Nothing Unnoticed Jobs Vast Without Gets Done Often Human Which Really Businesses Deserve Number
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. Margaret Heffernan
Truth Courage Free Moral Moral Courage Habit Develop Talent Until Us Skills Use Set
I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room. Margaret Heffernan
Happy Our Kids Hated Toys Always Were Susceptible Subsequently Sitting Anyone McDonald Littered Little Meals Room Lived
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors. Margaret Heffernan
Great Pool Corporation High Find Leaders Advantage Talent Supposed Achievers Which Groom Large Great Advantage
Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops. Margaret Heffernan
Words Stress Research Carefully Our Paper Tablets Percent More Also Read Than Laptops Shows Nearly Levels
In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down. Margaret Heffernan
You Business Opportunities Down Focused Staying Most Turn Requires
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. Margaret Heffernan
You People Words Think Diminish Ability Clearly How Misuse Truthfully Your
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to. Margaret Heffernan
Secret Hidden Out Rarely Freely Come Blind Witnessed Biggest Information Available
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy. Margaret Heffernan
Be Happy Happy Phones Believe Bad Must Unpredictable Bad Movie Contact Cliche Makes Genuine Soundtrack Soundtracks Replace Human Movie Us Seamless
I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another. Margaret Heffernan
Buy Me Be Happy Happy Mind Argument Thinking Other Evidence Kids Tense Stuff Like Know Talk Couple Occasionally Another Hear Families Just Next Even Each Honest
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them. Margaret Heffernan
Hate People Listening Nothing Down Setting Responds Oblivious No-One Because Around Sound Soundtrack Metro Walking Which Subway Them Notice Riders Lives Street
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. Margaret Heffernan
Class Creative Innovation World Engineering Design World-Class Arts Manufacturing British
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. Margaret Heffernan
Great Inventing Being Famous Poor Britain
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them. Margaret Heffernan
You People Will Power Whatever Own Once Tell Advances Inevitably Surrounded Them Agendas Who
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent. Margaret Heffernan
People Organization Every Silent About Remain Concerns Known Issues Which Choose Who Many
How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot. Margaret Heffernan
Truth People First Assumed Everyone Telling Telling The Truth Only Part Know Safe How Any Cannot Processes Products Company Second Watching
Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are. Margaret Heffernan
Business Few Research Tremendous Back Market Entrepreneurs Instead Attention Very Where Paying Zeitgeist Start
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound. Margaret Heffernan
Work People Try Space Thinking Instead Most Occupy Sound Forget Breathing Speaking
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great. Margaret Heffernan
Buy Great You Creativity Will Too Charisma Entirely Risk Inspiration Nobody Salesmanship Dependency Depends Want Ingenuity Your Company
Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting. Margaret Heffernan
Worth Back Spend Those Hassle Come Most Attracting Leaving Just Want Customers Who

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