Margaret Heffernan quotes

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.