"The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information."

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Source : Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

Marvin Bower

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“Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.”
“You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.”
“The writer doesnâ€™t write for the reader. He doesnâ€™t write for himself, either. He writes to serveâ€¦something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness â€” those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.”
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.”
“The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!”

Source : "‘Think Like A Man’ Star Meagan Good Dishes on Beauty Musts". Interview with Kimberly Walker, www.ebony.com. April 20, 2012.
“We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.”
“The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.”

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books
“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”

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