Braden Hoeppner Braden Hoeppner

"[ When selecting leaders… ] You want to select people who are difference-makers, who bring a different perspective to the table, who are originals, and not just carbon copies of the party line. We need leaders who are voices not echoes. We desperately need people with fresh thinking and fresh perspective on old issues or issues which have us stuck in a rut. We don’t need or want “yes” men or women who merely echo what others are saying or have said."

Dave Kraft - Picking the Right People

Posted January 22, 2012 at 10:08 pm

"It’s not ok to be unhappy and a part of this company."

Elon Musk, “Revenge of the Electric Car”

Posted January 8, 2012 at 5:55 pm

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

C.S. Lewis

Posted July 20, 2011 at 6:01 am

"In the absence of guidance or orders, figure out what the orders should have been and execute them aggressively."

General David Petraeus

Posted July 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm

"Generative leadership: the ability to bring a group to seemingly impossible courses of action by examining, testing, and overcoming their “mental models”: the deeply held assumptions and biases that hold them back. Generative leaders see — and help others see — that allegedly fixed constraints are constructs of individual and group perception, and not real barriers. This is the kind of leadership most critically needed in businesses and institutions around the world today."

Katheryn Sullivan (Strategy+Business, Autumn 2008)

Posted May 6, 2011 at 8:15 am

"There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that’s working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That’s where prayer comes in."

George S. Patton

Posted February 6, 2011 at 10:07 am 29 notes