Huey Newton Quotes

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

We have an industrial base - one that, if made to take orders rather than being allowed in the vacuum of leadership to create them, if enabled by the elimination of cost-plus contracting to produce and achieve rather than waste and receive, could make something worth the cost rather than making work that costs us our dreams.

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

I think there's a lot of things that need to be changed in the business.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.