The Connected Company Quotes

“Leaders are not good because they are right, they are good because people follow them, and people follow those who are willing to listen and learn.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Connected companies are living, learning networks that live within larger networks. Power in networks comes from awareness and influence, not control. Leaders must create an environment of clarity, trust, and shared purpose, while management focuses on designing and tuning the system that supports learning and performance.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Companies run on passion, and if you can’t find the passion in the work you’re doing today, then you’re in the wrong place.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“When the world is constantly changing, the speed at which you can learn is the only thing that can give you a long-term, sustainable advantage.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Principles are liberating, whereas policies are constraining. Principles are rules of thumb that can help people make decisions in all kinds of situations. Principles make use of human judgment. Policies, on the other hand, restrict and constrain and reduce the human element.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Learning is making progress toward a goal, so people need to know what they are shooting for.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“There’s an old adage about making difficult decisions: “When in doubt, go towards the fear.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“Customers, after all, are the one thing no business can do without. They are the key to every company’s survival.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“When principles are at the core of your competitive strategy, you must hire for attitude first. You can train people on skills, but you can’t train them on attitude. Employees must be a good fit. Hire for attitude, orient for values, and train for skills.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“As a senior leader, it’s all too easy to be blinded by past successes.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“The problem in many companies is that the workers in the company are insulated from these adaptive tensions. Many people just don’t feel them, and they don’t have any sense of urgency about them. The job of the leader is to bring these adaptive tensions front and center in the company to make them the topic of ongoing conversations,”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“As a leader, if you attract and hire good people in the first place, half of your leadership problems are solved right out of the gate.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company

“An emergent approach to strategy requires a large and diverse pool of ideas.”
― Dave Gray, The Connected Company