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"It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management."
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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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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
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"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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"It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management."
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"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
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"It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens."
Work

"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."
Men

"The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle."
Business

"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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