Communication Quotes
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“Companies that out-execute their competitors have communicated
crystal-clear messages to all their employees .”
Louis V. Gerstner
“Failure to communicate strategy results in staff members making up their own actions.”
Robin Speculand
Author & Consultant
“All of this takes enormous commitment from the CEO to com
municate, communicate, and communicate some more. No institu tional transformation takes place, I
believe, without a multi-year commitment by the CEO to put himself
or herself constantly in front of employees and speak in plain, simple,
compelling language that drives conviction and action throughout the
organization.”
Louis Grestner, former CEO of IBM
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.”
Plato (428-348 B.C.)
“Senior managers get lulled into believing that a well conceived strategy communicated to the
organization equals implementation.”
Michael Beer & Russell Eisenstat
“Great speakers create change. Their worth is measured, years after
the speech, by the change their words create in the actions and
attitudes of those whose lives they have touched.”
Lilly Waiters
"You've got to be able to speak so that people can understand you.
You have to practice all the time. One of the best methods is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely, you take away one
marble at a time. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public
speaker.”
George Jessel
"My job is to speak. Your job is to listen. Let's
hope we finish our jobs at the same time.“
Adlai Stevenson
“In many turnarounds and corporate transformations, the hardest battle is simply to make people aware of the need for a strategic shift and to
agree on its causes.”
W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy
Old English
• A mouse was a rodent• A keyboard came attached to a piano• A curser used profanity• A virus was the flu• A hard drive was a long car trip• A web was a spider’s home• A net caught fish• A program was a TV show• A CD was a bank account• A back up was a clogged toilet• An application was for employment• Log on was adding wood to the fire• Memory was something that got worse with age• A window was something you gazed out of
The greater the communication the lower the level of resistance.
Robin Speculand,
Author & Consultant
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will
appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and above all
accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), newspaper publisher
“Without credible communication and a lot of it, employees’ hearts and minds are never captured.”
Paul Niven
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. The
come back and hit it again, then hit it a third time with a tremendous whack
Sir Winston Churchill