“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.” ThinkingWayAbilityNumbersCreativityTalentDependsSkillsCapacityIncludingDrySpellsNew WaysTechnical Skills Author:Teresa Amabile
“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” SocialEmotionalOffersSkillsTrainingAdultsProgramOrganizationIncludingInjusticeRangeEmotional IntelligenceAdult EducationTraining ProgramsSocial Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.” SkillsGunIncludingSpeedShootingTyping Author:Bernhard Goetz
“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.” NeedsFeelingsAbilityEmotionTalkingTeacherTeachingEmotionalSkillsComfortableIncludingLiteracyEmotional Literacy Author:Daniel Goleman
“People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.” PeopleSkillsPicksIncludingOptimisticManagersProspectsOverconfident Author:Richard Thaler
“Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that already have been encountered and overcome by someone else. A technical hitch, for example, is more likely to be solved quickly and imaginatively if scientists (including scientists from different countries) pool their talents rather than compete against one another.” IfsHas BeensDifferentCountryProblemEffortTalentExampleSkillsApproachScientistOvercomingIncludingPoolContrastEnd TimesSpend TimeCooperativesDifferent CountriesDuplication Author:Alfie Kohn
“We have been at the matter of police pay for some time. Indeed, the Minister of Safety and Security and the National Commissioner of Police have raised this matter. Treasury has been looking at it and the Public Service and Administration Minister has been looking at it. It is a matter with which we are engaged, the salaries issue, as well as the resource question with regard to vehicles and, and all other matters, including the skills issues.” WellsHas BeensMatterPayIssuesSecuritySkillsResourcesPoliceRegardSafetyRaisedIncludingAdministrationMinistersEngagedVehicleSalaryPublic ServiceTreasurySafety And SecurityCommissioners Author:Thabo Mbeki