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Conversations in Management: Hermes
"It’s a little unnerving; Hermes has sailed by earth so many times and we didn’t even know it." -Paul Chodas, an orbit specialist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Unnerving! That doesn’t come close to expressing what we would have felt had we known...
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Conversations in Management: Candide
"…We’ll do the best we know.
We’ll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow." -Final Chorus from the Broadway musical Candide
Probably the best known of Voltaire’s works today is his satiric novel, Candide. The story follows the a...
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Conversations in Management: Davy Crockett
"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." -Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett delivered this line to an appreciative after-dinner audience on January 5, 1836 in Nacogdoches, Texas. The crowd loved it and Davy knew he’d finally gotten it right. It ...
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Conversations in Management: Horatio Alger - Ragged Rick
“You must drop that name, ‘Ragged Dick’, and think of yourself now as “Richard Hunter, Esq.”
“A young gentleman on his way to fame and fortune,” added Fosdick.
-From Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger
These are the closing lines from Ragged Dick, Horati...
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Conversations in Management: Good Will; An Anonymous Air Force Colonel
"Your first obligation is to assume good will." -An Anonymous Air Force Colonel
On New Year’s Day in 1997, the United States Air Force issued a small blue book that identified and explained the service’s core values—integrity first, service before ...
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Conversations in Management: Admiral James B. Stockdale
"The one thing I came to realize was that if you don’t lose your integrity you can’t be had and you can’t be hurt." -Admiral James B. Stockdale
This is a pretty good insight, but Admiral Stockdale wasn’t just talking about the vagaries of every day...
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Conversations in Management: Anais Nin
"Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage." -Anais Nin
Anais Nin is one of those marvelous characters of the twentieth century who were scandalous in their day, but almost tame by current standards. She was born in 1903 into an artistic f...
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Conversations in Management: Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
"Experience only teaches the teachable." -Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley is best known today as the author of Brave New World (1931). In that work, Huxley provides a vision of a dystopian future in which science and technology play dominant roles. It’...
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Conversations in Management: Edward A. Murphy, Jr. - Murphys Law
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in catastrophe, then someone will do it." -Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Almost everyone’s heard of Murphy’s Law, but most folks don’t realize that there really was a ...
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Conversations in Management: Frank McKinney Kin Hubbard
"A good listener is usually thinking of something else." -Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Some people have a knack for capturing truth in just a few words—“Kin” Hubbard was one of those people. Born in 1868, Hubbard was slow to discover his life’s cal...
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Conversations in Management: Douglas Adams
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams, Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams heard a lot of whooshing in the course of turning The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy into a cult...
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Conversations in Management: Francis Scott Key
"Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?" -Francis Scott Key
There’s something oddly appealing in the idea that someone might “deserve a song.” Key was, of course, talking about the defenders of the United Stat...
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Conversations in Management: Lance Armstrong
"Wearing the yellow doesn’t make you a great dad." -Lance Armstrong
Armstrong made this observation following Stage 18 of this year’s Tour de France. He went on to add that ultimately, the Tour was just a sport, but that being a father was what re...
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Conversations in Management: Johan Bruyneel
"Your first reaction is you try to find an explanation. Finally, we don’t find one, so you turn the page and look to the next day." -Johan Bruyneel
Bruyneel’s remarks were made following Stage 9 of this year’s Tour de France when Lance Armstrong’s ...
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Conversations in Management: Alexander Hamilton
"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything." -Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton is one of the most significant figures in American history. While most people recognize his name (after all, it’s been on our money since the Civil War), relat...
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Conversations in Management: Casey Stengel
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." -Casey Stengel
Baseball was Casey Stengel’s passion and with the exception of two off seasons spent in dental school, little else was of in...
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Conversations in Management: John Hancock
"Troops properly inspired, and animated by a just confidence in their leader will often exceed expectation, or the limits of probability." -John Hancock
In a matter of months, the Continental Army had been reduced by two thirds. After early success...
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Conversations in Management: Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don’t let it be wasted living someone else’s life." -Steve Jobs, CEO Apple Computer, CEO Pixar
For Steve Jobs, getting a college degree meant living someone else’s life; so he dropped out. But studying unrelated subjects t...
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Conversations in Management: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
He always wore black. He disapproved of loud laughter. He thought love was a topic too important to be discussed lightly. He was always a bit aloof—even his c...
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The Cure for the Highway Hi-Fi Blues
The other morning I was driving to an appointment, inserting a CD into the player, and I couldn’t help smiling. I was thinking about my father and his career as a mechanical design engineer for RCA. After the war, he helped design the innards of ...
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The Need To Be Right
I’m often amazed at the amount of energy people use when needing to be right about something, especially when it all boils down to each person’s belief around the subject they’re discussing. Yesterday I was standing in a very long line at the groce...
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How To Become a Charismatic Leader
Charisma is a quality that can enable you to accomplish almost everything you could ever want faster than you can imagine. It is a quality that all highly successful people have developed and use to their advantage in everything they do.
Charisma i...
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Sir Ernest Shackletons Methods of Recruitment
Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called the “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth… bar none”. From 1914-1916 Shackleton and his team survived the wreck of their ship, Endurance, in the crushing Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred mile...
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