Margaret Heffernan Thinking Quotations

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.