Quotes

Some wisdom words. Actually I am very inspired except some social pressures. I got new relations, new goals and new lifestyles. Again I am focused man who walks on my own shoes.

Don’t merely do your best; do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

Winston Churchill

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

American management decisions are based on statistical study of questionnaires and other data, while in Japan decisions are made on the basis of personal relationships and human considerations. The Japanese way is more realistic.

Noboru Terashima

No man is truly free who is not permitted occasionally to be irresponsible; nor is any institution.

Tom Wicker

If I were a first grader in one of the suburban schools, I would conclude that schools are geared toward two important things: lining up for lunch and putting the chairs on the desks at the end of the school day. These are the only two things that every teacher I observed adamantly insisted on. The child can only conclude that these tasks – and not reading – are terribly important. Everything else in the classroom is more or less laissez-faire. All sorts of distractions are allowed.

Bruno Bettelheim

One man’s carrot is another man’s stick. And a allergy to carrots or a tendency to masochism complicates things further.

Fred Yates

Manipulation, regimentation, coercion, for whatever motive or reason, will ultimately fail to produce good results. 

Dean Larsen

There is only one way to manage anythings, and that’s to keep it simple.

Theodore Leavitt

Those who cannot wait never win.

Buddha

Where our country is in trouble, it is where people have refused to change … in the auto industry, where they kept on building big cars, in the savings and loan industry, where they kept on offering low-interest savings accounts. We are in trouble wherever people predicted that past trends would always continue.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the “disorganizer,” the creator of a different future and the enemy of today.

Peter Drucker

Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do.

Cornvelle’s law

If you mess with a thing long enough, it’ll break.

Schmidt’s Law

Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.

Mitsch’s Law

Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficient service.

Peter’s Inversion

A society that uses people partly or perversely is underproductive. A society that finds ways to involve everybody fully becomes super productive.

Richard Cornveille

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who don’t.

Benchley’s Distinction

It’s by the process of constantly pressing upon one’s limits that life gets larger.

Arthur E.Morgan

A leader is best

When people barely know he exists,

Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,

Worse when they despise him,

But of a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say,

We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

In a hierarchical organization, bosses don’t do much … They just … take all the credit. … A lot of good … people are buried down there, and their bosses are happy to keep them buried.

Michael Walsh, former CEO, Tenneco

“The new consensus is that the greatest competitive advantage for the American company lies in a skilled empowered and adaptable work force.”

Robert B.Reich, US Secretary of Labor

Natural reengineering is often an outcome of self-managed teams.

Specialization is the enemy of Super leadership.

The objective is to build a flexible organization that was flatter and pushed decision making to lower levels.

The team leader becomes more concerned with stimulating self-leadership rather than dealing directly with work performance.

For a team to be truly empowered, team members should have a significant part in selecting the team leader.

In today’s complex environment, the lone wolf is gone. 

Company of Heroes: Unleashing The Power of Self-Leadership., Henry
P.Sims, JR., Charles C.Manz. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The only thing that really matters is the love of the game.

Charles Barkley, NBA All-Star Player

So many deeds cry out to be done. … Seize the day. Seize the hour.

Mao Tse-tung