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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
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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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"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
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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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"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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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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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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"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."
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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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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
Management
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."
Art
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
Time
"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
Career
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
Technology
"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."
Time
"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."
Home
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
Job
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
Nature
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."
Leadership
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