Executive
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The chief executive... like a juggler keeps a number of projects in the air: periodically one comes down, is given a new burst of energy, and is sent back into orbit.
'The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact,' Harvard Business Review (1975)
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Managing (1984)
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps... If the president of a company has a clean desk� then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Managing (1984)
We have corporate CEOs who raise their pay 20 percent or more in years when they lay off thousands of people. It's obscene.
BusinessWeek (1994)
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
The majority of businessmen are incapable of original thought because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason.
Quoted in The Creative Organisation (1965)
The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their characters. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.
Ogilvy on Advertising (1983)
Successful executives are great askers.
Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology (1994)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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