A strong competent leader is a wonderful asset. So is a strong competent bonded team. These don't have to be mutually exclusive although many strong leaders do interfere with team dynamics. The team has a higher "truck number". (as in "How many of us can get hit by a truck before … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Quotes
Lots and lots of great quotes
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If you're going to turn on an innovation engine, a lot depends on whether managers listen for the brilliance in their employees' ideas that they can then help test, or whether they listen for what's wrong and why it won't work. - Shari Ballard, Executive vice president of human resources and … Continue Reading ››
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Work should always be fun for all colleagues. We all only have one life. A third of life is work. Without desire and fun, work becomes hell. - Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep … Continue Reading ››
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Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been the key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. - Richard Branson
Free ebook: 1001 best things said about work
Ernie Zelinski emailed me a copy of his free e-book "1001 best things ever said about work" and I gotta say that that's quite the quote collection.
It includes nuggets like:
Guidelines for Bureaucrats: 1. When in charge, ponder. 2. When in trouble, delegate. 3. When in doubt, mumble. — James H. Boren Being … Continue Reading ››
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. - Arnold J. Toynbee
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J. ToynbeeThank you to David Zinger for telling me about this excellent quote.
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Work is much more fun than fun. - Noel Coward