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“I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.”

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Author:Blake Shelton

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

“In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.”

Needs Problem Three Majors Function Management Strategy Surveillance Prevention Osteoporosis

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.”

People Ifs Needs Writing Kind Done Song Boys Wife My Friends Criticism Management My Wife Songwriters Publishers My Boys Withstanding

Author:Luke Bryan

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb”

Ifs Needs Anger Management Complexes Fuel Bombs Internals Mechanism Rockets

Author:Stanley Bing

“It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.”

Needs Giving Happiness Enjoy Attention Greater Depends Management Possession Deeper Enjoyment Good Man Enjoy Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

Inspirational Needs White Knowledge Learning Self Esteem Management Positivity Snow Esteem Being Yourself Bullying Be You Need You Geese Just Being You Not Being Yourself

Author:Laozi

“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”

“Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"”

Source: Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)

“I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.”

“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.”

Men World Needs Real Inspiration Motivation Energy Numbers Position Management Critical Feminine Nurture Real Change Position Of Power Feminine Energy

Author:Isabel Allende

“True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.”

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Author:James D. Robinson III

“People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.”

“Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need”

Needs Business Resources Economics Management Efficiency

Author:Hilary Benn

“Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply”

Needs Firsts Energy Business Principles Design Industry Waste Economics Thirds Management Environmental

Author:David Miliband

“...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine”

Ifs Knows Want Needs May Values Answers Business Impossible Share Right Now Truth Is Economics Organization Management Genuine Engaged Employee Ethical Profitable

Author:Jim Craig

“Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips”

Needs Action Business Middle Beats Economics Standing Management Data Fingertips

Author:Betty Liu

“In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.”

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Author:Yingluck Shinawatra

“We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum”

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Author:Ed Mayo

“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”

“We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.”

Needs Past Habit Approach Resources Management Ecological Inertia

Author:Maurice Strong

“If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is”

“You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.”

Ifs Want Needs Values Goal Achieve Management Rewards Missions Statements Mission Statement

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New - New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.”

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Author:Joseph Cooper

“To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.”

Needs Littles Ends Helping Levels Results Behavior Management Helping Others Boss Need A Change End Results

Author:Marshall Goldsmith

“Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.”

“The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.”

“Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank... need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.”

“The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.”

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Author:Alfie Kohn

“Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.”

Way Needs States Strong Tradition Labor Management Private Sector Public Sector Washington State Positive Relationship

Author:Rob McKenna

“Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.”

Way Needs May Worry Waste Management Time Management Anxious Good Way Wasting Your Time

Author:Guy Finley

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.”

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.”

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Author:Peter Block

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

“We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.”

People Way Needs Giving Trying Action Knowledge Learning Advice Tomorrow Increase Management Obvious Yesterday Helpful Advise Likelihood Recommendations

Author:Peter Block

“A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.”

Needs Process Leader Knowledge Creative Learning Diversity Management These Days Mutual Host Creative Process Viewpoints

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.”

Needs Use Management Currents Seeking Drawing Improvement Rational Boards Our Time Assumption Time Management No Point Use Of Time

Book:The 80/20 Principle

Source: The 80/20 Principle

“The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'”

Needs May Eye Management Favors Merit Factories Earmarks

Author:Tom Coburn

“Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.”

Needs Real Process Leader Management Educational Superiors Managers Employee Controlled Selection Motivate Employees

Author:Horst Schulze

“'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.”

Thinking Needs Management Sophisticated

Author:Jason Jordan

“This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.”

Knows Needs Humans Water Management Clean International Borders Cooperation Currency Legislation Intervention Clean Water International Cooperation

Author:Bill Frist

“'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.”

Needs States Care Plans Commitment Essence Management Disappear Planning Health Care Dry Good Man Healthcare Providing Assurance Cement Medicaid Dry Up Alaskans

Author:Lisa Murkowski

“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”

Needs Shows Decision Results Wise Strength Information Expectations Management Improvement Executives Knowledge And Information Information Knowledge

Book:Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

“In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”

Needs Power Needed Management Lawyer Forty Old Days Handshake

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.”

Needs Desire Practice Fields Theory Skills Conflict Management Genuine Bridges Gaps Makers Engagement Advocacy Facilitate Differentiate Theory And Practice

Author:Widad Akrawi

“Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.”

Needs Firsts Quality Risk Achieve Building Products Mass Bases Management Cease Dependence Risk Management Inspection

Book:The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

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