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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."

"We need to learn to protect our time."

"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."

"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."

"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."

"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."

"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."

"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."

"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."

"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."
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