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Because most organizations still promote people based on their technical skills and not their management aptitude, you are more likely to experience mediocre or difficult bosses than great bosses.
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081 |
 |
Time is an executive’s scarcest and most precious resource. And organizations… inherently time wasters.
|
390 |
 |
Executives also owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
|
418 |
 |
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. It needs to be taught explicitly to everyone in organizations that are based on knowledge.
|
433 |
 |
…organizations are held together by information rather than by ownership or command.
|
440 |
 |
…effectiveness is the specific technology of the knowledge worker within an organization.
|
533 |
 |
The larger the organization, therefore, the less actual time will the executive have.
|
990 |
 |
…all one has to do is to learn to say “no” if an activity contributes nothing to one’s own organization, to oneself, or to the organization for which it is to be performed.
|
1067 |
 |
In a lean organization people have room to move without colliding with one another and can do their work without having to explain it all the time.
|
1179 |
 |
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization for one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
|
1188 |
