on thinking and doing
“Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.”
-Bill Raeder
George Bernard Shaw on effective communication
“The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
- George Bernard Shaw
found via: http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/2007/11/the-greatest-pr.html
Henry Ford tells us who should be the leader
The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’, is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Henry Ford
Einstein on personal development
Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Sophecles leadership wisdom
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Sophocles
Thoreau on the implications of how we spend our time
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don Rumsfeld on effective leadership structure
“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”
- Donald Rumsfeld
Colin Powell on how to accomplish great deeds
“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
- Colin Powell
How to motivate people to solve problems
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
- Paul Hawken
Eisenhower on an important leadership skill
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower