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Management, Page 503
In an organization, there is no such thing as a pleasant surprise.
Management, Page 503
…all bosses need to be protected from surprises. Otherwise, they will not trust a subordinate, and with good reason.
Management, Page 503
Accept it – different people need to be informed differently. And if you don’t adjust yourself to the way each of your bosses gets the message, you’ll be ineffectual.
The Effective Executive, Page 509
Effective executives know that they have ultimate responsibility, which can be neither shared nor delegated.
The Effective Executive, Page 513
Listen first, speak last.
Management, Page 523
It is time to give up thinking of jobs or career paths as we once did and to think in terms of taking on assignments and acquiring competencies one after the other.
Management, Page 525
In knowledge work, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.
The Effective Executive, Page 525
…insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
The Effective Executive, Page 533
…effectiveness is the specific technology of the knowledge worker within an organization.
The Effective Executive, Page 563
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.