Jeff Orr
@thejefforr.bsky.social
🤖 IT industry analyst, ISG Research
🏭ex-Product Manager: GPU; Wi-Fi; 4G
👨💼ex-Tech Strategy, The Walt Disney Company
🌱 Certified Master Gardener
🗒️ PKM Practitioner (Obsidian)
🌐 Bend, Oregon, USA
🏭ex-Product Manager: GPU; Wi-Fi; 4G
👨💼ex-Tech Strategy, The Walt Disney Company
🌱 Certified Master Gardener
🗒️ PKM Practitioner (Obsidian)
🌐 Bend, Oregon, USA
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other
- John F. Kennedy
(from the speech to be given the day his life was taken in Dallas, Texas)
- John F. Kennedy
(from the speech to be given the day his life was taken in Dallas, Texas)
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other
- John F. Kennedy
(from the speech to be given the day his life was taken in Dallas, Texas)
- John F. Kennedy
(from the speech to be given the day his life was taken in Dallas, Texas)
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them
- John C. Maxwell
- John C. Maxwell
January 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them
- John C. Maxwell
- John C. Maxwell
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
- Vince Lombardi
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
- Vince Lombardi
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
- Ross Perot
- Ross Perot
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
- Ross Perot
- Ross Perot
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself
- Latin Proverb
- Latin Proverb
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself
- Latin Proverb
- Latin Proverb
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
December 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader
- John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adams
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader
- John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adams
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
- Warren Bennis
- Warren Bennis
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
- Warren Bennis
- Warren Bennis
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that’s not particularly inspiring
- John Mackey
- John Mackey
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that’s not particularly inspiring
- John Mackey
- John Mackey
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody
- Herbert Swope
- Herbert Swope
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody
- Herbert Swope
- Herbert Swope
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be
- Warren Bennis
- Warren Bennis
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be
- Warren Bennis
- Warren Bennis
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command
- Solon
- Solon
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command
- Solon
- Solon
He who has great power should use it lightly
- Seneca
- Seneca
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
He who has great power should use it lightly
- Seneca
- Seneca
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths
- John Zenger
- John Zenger
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths
- John Zenger
- John Zenger
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand
- General Colin Powell
- General Colin Powell
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand
- General Colin Powell
- General Colin Powell
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey
- Stephen Covey
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey
- Stephen Covey
Education is the mother of leadership
- Wendell Willkie
- Wendell Willkie
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Education is the mother of leadership
- Wendell Willkie
- Wendell Willkie
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Donald Rumsfeld
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Donald Rumsfeld
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max DePree
- Max DePree
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max DePree
- Max DePree
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it
– Thomas Friedman
– Thomas Friedman
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it
– Thomas Friedman
– Thomas Friedman
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
October 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
October 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith