Tag: Success

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