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"I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan."
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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Personal Development
"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
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Personal Development
"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
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Personal Development
"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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Personal Development
"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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Personal Development
"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
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Personal Development
"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"
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Personal Development
"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."
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"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
Accomplishment
"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
Press
"I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan."
Management
"Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish."
Leadership
"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."
Life
"When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well."
Money
"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
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