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Rather than closing ourselves off to the world, we need to increase our domestic productivity and improve education…
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169 |
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The measure of self-motivation in a young person will be the best way to predict upward mobility.
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230 |
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Organizations that have moved to a partnership culture have always had to deal with managers who could not (or would not) change, and they have usually had to remove them from managerial positions.
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432 |
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…management must convey its excitement for the partnership approach, but do so in a way that is informative and realistic. Conviction and credibility – not salesmanship – are the keys.
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451 |
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…one can say that, often, it is management that kills or dampens enthusiasm!
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11 |
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Based [on research]… there are three primary sets of goals of people at work: equity, achievement, and camaraderie.
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32 |
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…based on false assumptions… [it] becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: management that expects the worst from people typically gets it.
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36 |
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…in management practice, little is foreordained. Much can be done if there is a will to do it.
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38 |
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Pride comes from both the employee’s own perceptions of accomplishment and from the recognition received from others.
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39 |
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Perversely, many managers appear to… do their best to demotivate employees!
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39 |
