#nag

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO. ↗

— Max McKeown

#collaboration #innovation #leadership #management #planning

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#eating #message #really #teenage #teenage girls

Your biggest enemy is the unknown and assumptions. ↗

— LTG Christianson

#management #planning #leadership

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#discipline #leadership #management-theory #motivational #organization-wisdom

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#conservation #cooperation #efforts #federal #hallmark

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#day #effective #high #hitters #i

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind. ↗

— Margaret Heffernan

#leadership

If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#leadership-vs-management #leadership

We have to build the framework in which we will execute the tasks. ↗

— LTG Christianson

#management #planning #strategy #leadership

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#management #strategic-planning #leadership