Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
As many followers of Friday Quotes know, the constant of change is brought up frequently. How change is managed and done makes the difference between success and not.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
One of the challenges for leadership in business is remaining relevant, and that means anticipating and moving with change. Part of leadership is using the various techniques available, applying the correct method at the right time.
A leader is best when people barely know that s/he exists.
Everyone knows who the leader is in an organization. However, when a leader has to keep reminding everyone who they are, “followership” is questionable. A leaders puts the vision forward and coaches others for achievement and success.
Culture doesn’t respond to force—it responds to conditions.
Look up how to define culture and you’ll find there is no one exact definition. How people work and how the organization is governed, together, molds the climate of the workplace. Safety is a key component to culture: when done right, employees can focus on their jobs and each other rather than self-preservation.
Mission first, safety always
Many times the business perspective of safety is a series of “don’ts”. That is a lot of resource spent on what you’re not going to do. The value of safety is planning what you’re going to do to achieve the desired performance, then implementing continuously.
A vision alone is just a slogan. Execution is what makes it real.
Visions define the why and how organizations deliver their products and services to their customers. It’s an aspirational statement to connect with customers. In leadership, visions offer a way to picture where the organization is headed: a shared journey all employed serve to achieve.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success stems from many factors, and it takes an idea that meets customers’ wants and needs to lead to fruition. For safety processes to succeed within organizational processes, focus on creating alignment with the customers’ (re: employees) wants and needs to make the efforts count towards business results.
They know what they want, but not what they need.
Anyone trying to work with customer wants invariably are confronted with customer needs, and that’s different from what YOU need. Many times they don’t always match. In safety, just as in business, it takes the relationship to align the wants and needs in order to be successful.
Successful entrepreneurs are lifelong learners who are constantly looking for ways to improve and grow.
Change is constant but constant change does not necessarily lead to success. The key of change is the knowledge gained for that change, not from it. Safety looking forward for alignment allows occupational risk to be an opportunity to address rather than an exposure to avoid.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Business success includes getting things done efficiently and to the satisfaction level (or greater) of the customer without burden. And the first thing is the core of what makes the business money.