Denise Morrison Quotes

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. You never arrive.

People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.

I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

Your ambitions - don't limit them. Where do you want to go, and what would be required of you to grow into that? Put yourself together a plan, and develop the skills to get there.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

So I've definitely had a crazy career, but I'm starting to put it together and starting to take my time and know that I can really do some damage if I just slow down just a little bit.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

As a player you need to make whatever decision you think is best for your career.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

I've realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.

I know my game. I know what I need to get better at and be better at.

Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.

I just really work hard on myself every day.