Systems

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. - Russell L. Ackoff


If you are building the system; no. If you are staffing the system; yes.

The Choice

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs


The choice is between easy opportunities and distant adventures.

Precious Minds

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud


Maybe, but don't count on it; it's too important.

Decisive Leadership

If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. - Lee Iacocca


Businesses should be dictatorships, not democracies.

Soaring

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller


Make sure your people can soar.

Going Slowly

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb


How fast you go says a lot about your personality.

Lunch Menu

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! - Benjamin Franklin


Defend the rights of the lamb.

Fear Cured

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie


If you get bucked off don't just sit in the dirt, get back on.

Right Now

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to say it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. - Blaise Pascal


Plan for the future; learn from the past; live today accordingly.

Blissful

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not worry about failing. - Jeff Foxworthy


We all start out blissfully ignorant; successful people stay that way.