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“U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.”

Men Mean Politics Realizing Hours Wealth Leader Economy Industry Research Labor Direct Bases Competition Liberalism Buying Wages Automation Multiplying Buying Power

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.”

Important Chance Views Leader Path Clear Bases Boss Chances Are

Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.”

People Needs Stills Results Leader Millions Saws Century Movement Horror Organization Bases Likes 20th Century Distrust Doom Mislead Charisma Charismatic Mao Quacks

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections”

Running America Form Leader Economy Periods Taxes Bases Irony Collections Soviet Smooth Philanthropy Splendid Breakdown Frantic Evasion Tax Evasion

Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”

“Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.”

Needs Feels Mind Leader Written Heard Team Habit Bases Priorities Guidance Shouting Contributing

Author:Martin Zwilling

“One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.”

Country Simple Leader Principles Truth Is Evidence Bases Iraq Intuition Rhetoric Exaggerated Simple Truths

Author:Wesley Clark

“The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.”

Persons Leader Capacity Bases Mindset Framework

Author:Warren G. Bennis