Management
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Everyone has peak performance potential. You just need to know where they are coming from and meet them there.
Leadership and the One Minute Manager (2000)
Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, don't let their appearances fool you.
The One Minute Manager (1993)
Only positive consequences encourage good future performance.
Putting the One Minute Manager to Work (1992)
One of the most important things about being a good manager is to rule with a heart. You have to know the business, but you also have to know what's at the heart of the business and that's people.
The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Bill Adler, 1997)
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good. But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Bill Adler, 1997)
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Quoted in Corporate Cultures (1982)
Management � the collective effort of intelligence, experience, and imagination.
Adventures of a White Collar Man (1941)
If we had the means to review and judge the effectiveness of operations, we could safely leave the prosecution of these operations to the men in charge of them.
My Years with General Motors (1964)
Of all business activities, 99% are routine... The entire 100% can be handled by managing the 1% of exceptions.
'The Most Important Things I Learned About Management,' System (1924)
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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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