Leverage Quotes

“Hear with your ears, listen with your heart.”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got. ~ Peter F. Drucker”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed! ~ Peter Senge”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with. ~ Robert Levering, Co-Founder, Great Place to Work”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“When employees hold the same core beliefs and values, you need fewer policies to control or manage work. Instead, your employees have an innate ability to deliver solutions and customer service that match your desired culture.”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Anyone can copy your strategy, but no one can duplicate your culture!”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Change Management seems to result in lots of management and little change. What I’m really looking for is Change Leadership!~ a very frustrated CEO”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Performance (1992). Using the term ‘adaptive’ and ‘non-adaptive’ to describe high and low performing cultures, they studied over 200 firms, including Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI and Nissan, and concluded that adaptive cultures, those that are flexible enough to evolve with changing market conditions, tended to perform better economically than non-adaptive cultures.”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. ~ Warren Buffett”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

“A proprietary technology can be reverse engineered and a star performer can be recruited away by a competitor. But a successful culture? That’s bigger than any single individual or innovation, and can survive them both.”
― John R. Childress, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture