Stakeholder Quotes

• When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Communication, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Team, Organization, Support

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

  Mary Robinson

  Progress, Energy, Process

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Optimistic

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• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from
  markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  Anodea Judith

  Moving, Greed, Competition

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• While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Decision, India

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• All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Responsibility, Loss, Gains

  "Is Angela Merkel The Real Cause Of The Irish Sovereign Debt Collapse?" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.

  Will Hutton

  Lying, Company, Brands

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Balance, Important, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. February 28, 2011.

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• For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Memories, Design, Maps

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Balance, Groups, Claims

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

  Don Tapscott

  Community, Partners, Employee

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Community, Purpose, Facts

  Speech by Mr Vivek Kamra, www.spd.org.sg. 2014.

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• Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Heart, Thinking, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.

  Mary Robinson

  Keys, Progress, Energy

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'

  Peter Corning

  Party, Issues, Humanity

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• Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

  Bill Gates

  Goal, Poverty, Helping

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• You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic mission of the company - what it does to the suppliers, governments, all your stakeholders.

  Martin Sorrell

  Government, People, Focus

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Earth, Might, Taught

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• Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders.

  Philip Kotler

  Art, Creating, Knowing

  "Internet and Business, 2001-2002". Book by Robert W. Price, 2001.

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• We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Integrity, Practice

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Needs, Excuse

  "Blake Mycoskie On TOMS New One For One Eyewear". Interview with Blake Mycoskie, www.fastcompany.com. June 27, 2011.

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