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Gordon Bethune

"But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people -- not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day."

Source : Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

Gordon Bethune

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”
“The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.”

Source : Henry Laurence Gantt (1961). “Gantt on Management: Guidelines for Today's Executive”
“Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.”
“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.17, Macmillan
“It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”

Source : Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.210, Hachette UK
“I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.”
“Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.”
“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.”

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