#nag

So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that she cannot force everyone to perform the same way. ... The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and let each person find his own route toward these outcomes. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership

Too many kings can ruin an army ↗

— Homer

#followers #kings #leaders #leadership #leadership-vs-management

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership

Think effectively Do efficiently. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Efficiency is doing the right thing in the right manner, the first time. ↗

— Avinash Narula

#leadership

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood. ↗

— Gerald Weinberg

#leadership #leadership-vs-management #leadership

To master the virtual equation and make all the elements work together, you have to become the connector. In fact, your greatest role as a virtual manager is to link the various parts of his/her team to accomplish the goals that lead to its formation in the first place. You may need to shift gears, perform ream tune-ups, realign, and refuel your team's energy along the way. ↗

— Yael Zofi

#virtual #virtual-world #leadership

People not only notice how you treat them, they also notice how you treat others. ↗

— Gary L. Graybill

#manager-training #leadership

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#nagasawa #life

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ↗

— Judith Martin

#taxes #teenagers #life

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t. ↗

— Dick Grote

#termination #life