"Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best."

-- Henry Mintzberg

#Jobs Quotes #Organization Quotes #People Quotes

“To live by medicine is to live horribly.”
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.”
“You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.”
“We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.”
“Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.171, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.”
“Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!”

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