Month: November 2024

Why Wise Leaders Succeed, According To John W. Foreman

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management

If you are in a leadership position, if you really apply these quotes from Foreman, you will succeed.

‘Having a team of A players means firing B players more than it means hiring A players.’- John W. Foreman

‘Run a blameless culture so that people will take more risks.

Run a high-accountability culture so that people will make more impact.’- John W. Foreman

‘Focus on the inputs, and the outputs will follow.’

But you get what you measure, not necessarily the output that follows from it.’- John W. Foreman

‘Move fast and break things except when you can’t. And then move slow and fix things. There’s probably a time when you should just go somewhere between fast and slow too …’ – John W. Foreman

‘In a world of specialist, the generalist is king. Except when you need to do one thing super well, then they kind of suck. So I guess specialists are kings too.’- John W. Foreman

‘Let those closest to the customer have the authority to make a decision. Except when your customer might not be representative of where the market or your company is headed. Then closeness to the current customer might limit your future options.’- John W. Foreman

‘If you want to do something right, do it right. Except when someone else can do it more ‘right’ than you; then just buy that shit.’- John W. Foreman

‘Do not confuse stubborness with courage. Do not confuse overconfidence with preternatural correctness.’- John W. Foreman

‘Leaders are not magicians; their power lies not in their mystique but in the quality of their decisions.’- John W. Foreman

‘Transparency costs you nothing.’– John W. Foreman

‘Values are beliefs that motivate choosing a particular option over another when making a decision.’- John W. Foreman

‘Company culture consists of the shared, held values and resulting behaviors of the company.’- John W. Foreman

‘Great leaders check on the behaviors their values are creating regularly.’- John W. Foreman

‘Bad decision-makers need to be removed from making important decisions as quickly as possible.’- John W. Foreman

‘Spend your time on your best leaders, not coaching your underperformers.’- John W. Foreman

How To Get Better Results

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

‘Focus on the inputs, and the outputs will follow.’– John W. Foreman

If you want to make a difference in your life, if you really want to change things, do not focus on what you are going to get. Instead, focus your energy on getting the process right.

It does not matter what we want to achieve in our lives. If you don’t get the process right, it is not going to work.

The question is not what you are doing, but how are you doing it? Are you just doing it because people are pushing to change your life?

Or are you doing it because you really want to create a better life for yourself?

Why are you in the game you are playing? What are you doing to be better than your yesterday’s self?

Success is about the process. When the process is right, growth will follow. If you focus on what you want, you will get what you want.

If you focus on what you don’t want, you will get what you do not want.

What you really want will come from what you are doing, not what you are thinking. You can think all you like. If you want to change your thoughts from just mere thoughts to something greater than yourself, you must focus on what you are trying to achieve in your life.

Process matters. It is not what you do that matters. It is how you do it that is going to give you what you want. If you want success, you must ‘focus on the inputs.’