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"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
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"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."
"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
"Leadership is relationship."
"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."
"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different."
"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."
"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."
"I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan."
"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."
"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."
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