Quotes

Influence, Page 359

…a preference for consistency increase[s] with the years and… once beyond the age of fifty, people display the strongest inclination of all to remain consistent with their earlier commitments.

The Messy Middle, Page 359

Don’t let success at a company prevent you from pursuing scary and wonderful new opportunities to build.

The Effective Executive, Page 359

Effective executives try to focus on jobs they’ll do especially well.

Management, Page 360

The one thing that can be guaranteed in any kind of operation is the daily crisis. The daily crisis cannot be postponed; it has to be dealt with right away. And the existing operation demands high priority and deserves it.

Influence, Page 360

…members of individualistic societies – particularly older members – need to be alert to influence tactics that begin by requesting just a small step. Those small, cautious steps can lead to big, blind leaps.

Management, Page 360

…entrepreneurship and innovation can be achieved by any business. But they must be consciously striven for.

Management, Page 360

…the entrepreneurial, the new, has to be organized separately from the old and existing.

The Messy Middle, Page 360

…you are not your work. Your work, or your art, is something you’ve made. It can fail, be sold, or be left behind, but it can’t be you.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 361

Besides being wasteful and debilitating, much of the conflict in organizations is needless and irrational.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 361

Much of the discord between groups in organizations… does not stem from an inherent incompatibility of interests, but from a perception that such incompatibility exists.