Ten incisive one-liners from the Academy’s roster of speakers
- Under-performance is a virus that will infect your organisation. It gets worse because then your best people move on (David Smith)
- Keep it simple – business is about selling products and services that don’t come back to customers that do (Phil Jesson)
- If you know where you are going you are already half-way there (Ken Minor)
- Getting rid of the layers gets rid of delayers (David Smith)
- You don’t get ulcers from what you eat – you get them from what’s eating you! (Celynn Erasmus)
- Bosses corner people, leaders get people in their corner (Jez Cartwright)
- You can be appointed as a manager but you can’t be appointed as a leader – they decide (Simon Hazeldine)
- Persuasion is when you attempt to change someone’s beliefs. Influence is when you use and work with someone’s beliefs (Philip Hesketh)
- Get on with it – good plans executed today are better than perfect plans executed next month (Nigel Risner)
- Make sure that your purpose is bigger than your fear (David Hyner)