Dov Frohman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."
-- Dov Frohman

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Managersâ€™ typical response to my argument about free time is, â€˜Thatâ€™s all well and good, but there areÂ things I have to do.â€™ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activityâ€”it takes an enormous effort onÂ the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.
-- Dov Frohman

#Effort #Leader #Important
If you arenâ€™t even aware that the people in the organization disagree with you, then you are in trouble
-- Dov Frohman

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Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.
-- Dov Frohman

#Effort #Leader #Important
If you aren’t even aware that the people in the organization disagree with you, then you are in trouble
-- Dov Frohman

#Organization #People #Trouble

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

Dov Frohman famous quotes

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