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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
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"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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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
Management
"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."
Creativity
"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
Business
"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."
Career
"Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning."
Will
"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace."
Future
"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."
Talk
"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."
Time
"The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast."
Sports
"Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system."
Behavior
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