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.
Margaret Heffernan
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MARGARET MEAD Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,... MARGARET ATWOOD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. MARGARET MEAD You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. MARGARET THATCHER I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ... MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ... MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamu... MARGARET MEAD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... MARGARET WEIS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. MARGARET THATCHER The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t... MARGARET THATCHER It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin... MARGARET THATCHER In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla... MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ... MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. MARGARET ATWOOD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i... MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit. MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ... MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve... MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an... MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic... MARGARET ATWOOD