"A leader’s first task is to diagnose the culture. Only then can they decide whether to embrace, adapt, or transform it."
- Michael Watkins
Leadership
"Your ability to accelerate your impact depends on your ability to read the cultural terrain and navigate it effectively."
- Michael Watkins
Leadership
"When you step into a new role, you are not just joining an organization, you are joining its culture."
- Michael Watkins
Organization
"The most important conversations you have during your first 90 days are about understanding the culture: what’s valued, what’s ignored, and what’s taboo."
- Michael Watkins
Organization
"If strategy is the ‘what’ and process is the ‘how,’ culture is the ‘why.’"
- Michael Watkins
Organization
"If I need to remind myself to bring something with me in the morning, I’ll usually put my car keys on top of it."
- Des Traynor
Organization
"You cannot run a successful retail business from memory."
- Josh Hartford
Organization
"I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision."
- Tess Daly
Organization
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
- A. A. Milne
Organization
"This is some rescue. You came in here and you didn't have a plan for getting out?"
- Princess Leia
Organization