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“Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.”

“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.”

“Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.”

“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.”

“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.”

“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.”

“There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.”

“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.”

“What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.”

“Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.”

“The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.”

“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.”

“Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.”

“Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.”

“Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.”

“Customer satisfaction is the key determinant of quality. If a product satisfies the customer or meets the customer's specifications, then it is acceptable. Otherwise, it is defective in some way. To define the quality of any product, one must fully understand customer needs and specifications.”

“Unmanaged” deconstructs the discipline of management and makes the compelling case that knowledge workers perform much more effectively for “Humble Gardeners” than “Angry Ranchers.” With decades of experience working with hundreds of professional service firms, Jack Skeels presents a convincing case for how the chronically misunderstood agile framework can produce transformational results.”

“Don't Hire Good....Hire Great.”

“You Work For Your Team, They Don't Work For You.”

“Micromanagement could have unintended consequences. Instead of getting people in line, it may cause them to leave.”

“You can't run at your maximum if you're always pushing your limits. Neither can your team.”

“Good managers execute as well as motivate. Not all leaders need to be managers, but all managers need to be good leaders. While managing is an art; leadership is a skill that needs to be inculcated and enforced while executing assignments through subordinates”

“Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.”

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

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