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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."

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

"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."

"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"

"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."


"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."


"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."


"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."


"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."


"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
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