Robert Townsend Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Robert Townsend Quotes and Sayings
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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
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A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
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All organizations are at least 50 percent waste - waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.
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Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
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Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible.
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If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
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If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments.
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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
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Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
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Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
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Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.
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One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
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