"Start with the end in mind. "
— Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

"The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies."
— Robert Conquest

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
— Eric Hoffer

"I spent a lot of money of booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. "
— George Best

"Your biggest enemy is the unknown and assumptions."
— LTG Christianson

"In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting."
— Marcus Buckingham

"If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.
"
— Susan Del Gatto

"We have to build the framework in which we will execute the tasks."
— LTG Christianson

"Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process."
— Kelly A Morgan

"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure."
— Michael Crichton (Congo)

"You don't measure by a percentage increase, you measure by whether you are getting the job done."
— LTG Christianson

"What's measured improves"
— Peter Drucker

"Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear."
— Leon Courville

"It's not Economy; It's Innovation. Economy is not in Recession or Depression. Innovation is in Recession; Innovation is in Depression"
— Bala

"First you must find the right people to board the bus, then you must find the right seats for them."
— Chris Cuvelier

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner

"No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited."
— Tom Northup

"All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things."
— Tom Northup

"If you don't know the conceptual underpinnings, anything is good."
— LTG Christianson

"That's Not Right!
"
— LTG Christianson

"How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don’t know it."
— Rudolph Dreikurs

"Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or “Time management” will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you’re stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you will not perform up to your potential. You will waste a lot of time, be an inefficient performer, and likely assume you need to manage your time better. In reality you need to manage your thinking better. "
— John Eliot (Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More)

"The goal of management is to remove obstacles."
— Paul Orfalea (Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies)

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
— Peter Drucker

"Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future."
— Paul Orfalea (Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies)

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
— Peter Drucker

"People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are."
— Peter Drucker

"The ways in which senior executives allocate, manage and position their new digital
assets and knowledge resources will have a strong bearing on the firm’s ability to
compete successfully in today’s global digital economy.
"
— Med Yones

"For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. "
— Med Yones

"A CEO's performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers"
— Med Yones

"Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be
visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.
"
— Med Yones

"The leadership team is the most important asset of the company and can be its worst
liability
"
— Med Yones

"A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too."
— Frederick Phillips Brooks (Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition)

"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet"
— Henry Mintzberg

""Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision""
— Bob Selden