"I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models."

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Source : "The Will to Manage: Corporate Success Through Programmed Management" by Marvin Bower, New York: McGraw-Hill, (p. 7), 1966.

#Running Quotes #Team Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The world belongs to passionate driven people.”
“I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.”
“In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.”
“When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.”
“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.”
“Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.”
“Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.120, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.”

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