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  • "Catch someone doing something right." Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
  • "In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." David Ben-Gurion
  • "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
  • "The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
  • "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
  • "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."Warren Bennis
  • "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." Peter F. Drucker
  • "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." Pearl S. Buck
  • "The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."Edwin H. Land
  • "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
  • "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." Ralph Marston
  • "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Ken Blanchard
  • "Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish." Marcus Aurelius
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney
  • "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
  • "There's a way to do it better - find it."Thomas Edison
  • "The empires of the future are empires of the mind." Winston Churchill
  • "Make the workmanship surpass the materials." Ovid
  • "The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."Lawrence Miller
  • "You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways."M. Minsky
  • When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser
  • "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." Walter Lippman
  • "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." Pat Riley
  • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
  • "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
  • "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." Henry David Thoreau
  • "Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -only in constant improvement and constant change." Tom Peters
  • "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland
  • "Control your destiny or someone else will." Jack Welch
  • " Vision without execution is hallucination." Thomas Edison
  • "Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich." Robert H. Johnson
  • "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford
  • "Never invest in a business you cannot understand." Warren Buffett
  • "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." Warren Buffett
  • "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart." Thomas Watson, Sr.
  • "Big thinking precedes great achievement." Wilferd Peterson
  • "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." Dr. Linus Pauling
  • "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet." Henry Mintzberg
  • "Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it." George Lucas
  • "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie
  • "To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind." Seneca
  • "Hire character. Train skill." Peter Schutz
  • "The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces." Thomas Aquinas
  • "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't." Peter Drucker
  • "The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." John Egan
  • "You can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney
  • "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."James Russell Lowell
  • "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau
  • "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future." James Bertrand
  • "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."John Scully
  • "A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do." Anthony T. Dadovano
  • "The best vision is insight." Malcolm S. Forbes
  • "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."Jonathan Swift
Minding the Gap™ is a trademark of BEIED. This mission reflects the British Train Conductor's "Mind the Gap!" call -- the traditional cautionary warning to passengers as they traverse the gap between the station platform and the proper train to transport them to their intended destination. BEIED provides the platform and the pathway to enable managers to step from their current performance level to reach their goals by elevating their competencies.
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BEIED - Business Education for International Economic Development

The Seattle-based BEIED organization applies a very clear mission – emerging economies deserve high quality business education to enhance their development within a globalized future. Through local delivery of modern business administration education to motivated participants, BEIED elevates the economic development of these emerging economies.

MINDING THE GAP – A BEIED COMMITMENT TO ELEVATING MANAGERIAL COMPETENCIES

BEIED elevates competencies through educational and professional development that heighten performance.

BEIED is in the business of "Minding the Gap"™ for those who intend to close the gap between their current level of competency and their aspirations for higher levels of achievement.

BEIED provides services to countries in North America, Europe, and Asia to:

  • Compete in the international marketplace.
  • Establish and raise western-style business education at the middle manager and senior executive levels.

BEIED delivers effective managerial education:

  • To companies in the region that face the pressure of growth while building a long-term role in the global economic scene
  • By:
    • Executive and Business education
    • In-house customized programs and consulting
    • Business consulting
    • Open-enrollment management development programs 
    • Academic services for selected Western universities

BEIED principals have served a wide range of innovative corporate clients such as: Apple Computer, Boeing Aerospace, Cisco Systems, City University, Economic-Legal Research Institute – Tokyo, German Administration Managers Union (DAA), Levi Strauss, Microsoft, Pacific Bell, Romanian Banking Institute, United Airlines, University of Washington, and the Washington State Lottery.