"Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it."

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Source : Henry Mintzberg (1980). “The Nature of Managerial Work”, Prentice Hall

Henry Mintzberg

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“If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.”
“If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.”
“Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.”
“There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.”
“There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.”
“I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.”
“Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.”

Source : "Song: 'The Last Tea Song' ('Blue Walls and The Big Sky')". 1995.

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