Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
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.
So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that?
Safety is a fundamental business element that engages all aspects of the organization for the betterment of the assets within it so they can perform at their best, and desire to do so. That’s what safety does.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Leaders provide vision, direction and support for business success. Healthy disagreement opens discussion for resolving challenges before they occur, thus paving the way for a smoother, resilient journey.
None of us entered the safety profession for accolades. Much of our work happens behind the scenes, ensuring that risks are minimized and lives are protected.
Businesses make headlines for two reasons: they are the trend of the day (year, decade) or something bad happened. While the former is great for continued success, how a business responds in negative times makes the difference in survival.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Businesses start with a vision of how to meet a marketplace demand. Turning that vision into reality is key for the business’s sustainability. Safety not only parallels this, it must integrate within.