… creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organisation, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.
– John Baldoni
Tag Archives: Action
I think that…
… the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn’t work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do
– Carlos Ghosn
Twenty years…
… from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain.
Cautious, careful people…
… always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
– Susan B. Anthony
The only certain…
… destination arises from a journey never begun
– Paradigms of leadership
My job is…
… not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
– Steve Jobs
Leadership is…
… the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
-James L. Fisher
High sentiments….
… always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
– George Orwell
Take time…
…. to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
– Andrew Jackson
Impressing people….
… changes what they think. Influencing people changes what they do.
– Unknown
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