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Most of our organization tends to be arranged on the assumption that people cannot be trusted... that sort of attitude creates a paraphernalia of systems, checkers, and checkers checking checkers � expensive and deadening.
'Trust and the Virtual Organization,' Harvard Business Review (1991)
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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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."
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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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