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"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."

"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."

"I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes."

"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."

"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line."

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."

"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"

"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric."

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."

"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."
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