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If people are coming to work excited ... if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly ... if they're having fun ... if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
Make every decision as if you owned the company.
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit ... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
