7 Quotes & Sayings By Dov Seidman

Dov Seidman is the CEO of LRG, a strategic advisory firm that advises the world's top executives. He has served as a judge on "Shark Tank," and has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair. Dov is the author of "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business" and "Confidence: Overcoming the Obstacles to Owning Our Own Future."

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Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in. Dov Seidman
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In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire. Dov Seidman
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If you are trying to bring about a better future, you must eery day go someplace you have not been before, to the point of no return. What happens every time you go to the point of no return? You push past your limits and open up new terrains of possibility. Each challenge accepted leads to greater ability when you confront the next. Dov Seidman
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The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated. Dov Seidman
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Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks. Dov Seidman
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Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes. Dov Seidman