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The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controll...

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Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the fina...

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You can change only what people know, not what they do.

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Scott AdamsGod's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it ...

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder ...

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It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so t...

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Steve JobsSteve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and se...

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Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air...

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Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or s...

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Tom DeMarcoSlack: Getting Past Burnout

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal compet...

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Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is li...

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Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effo...

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If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The an...

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Managers who inspire extraordinary loyalty from their people tend to be highly charismatic, humorous...

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Tom DeMarcoSlack: Getting Past Burnout

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya,...

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad econ...

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...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset driv...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...

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I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody...

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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sord...

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Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and y...

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There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach be...

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Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "...

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Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost over...

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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robb...

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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational chang...

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Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide a...

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

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Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

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Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

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Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

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Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

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Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

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No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

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You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

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The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

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Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

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The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

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You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

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Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

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To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

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No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

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You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

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The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

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It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

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You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

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Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

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The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

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There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

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Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

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Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

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Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

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