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If you look at the companies where the CEO stayed on till he's 80, those are the people who confuse themselves with the company.
New York Times (1993)
We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently; �Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises.� So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.
Interview with Scott London, U.S. National Public Radio (1996)
As long as capital � both human and money - can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.
Speech (1993)
I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to love their organizations. We need that level of commitment... Yet organizations have done very little to deserve that kind of staying-power.
U.S. National Public Radio (1996)
If you're trying to create a healthy organization, one that can sustain itself over time, simply legislating and dictating behavior and outcomes doesn't work at all.
U.S. National Public Radio (1996)
In organizations where people trust and believe in each other, they don't get into regulating and coercing behaviors. They don't need a policy for every mistake... people in these trusting environments respond with enormous commitment and creativity.
'Don't Get Out of the Way!,' www.mgeneral.com (1997)
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
The organization would have... an ideology. The perceptive reader visitor would sense it immediately.
The Structuring of Organisations (1979)
It would be a great mistake to confine your imagination to the way things have always been done. In fact, it would consign you to the mediocrity of the marketplace.
Managing (1984)
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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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