Quotes #13: Lancaster,Sahlman, Paul, Whacker, Sandberg, Buzan, Prahalad, Tuck, Tyson, Schavers
Employers have an interest in keeping their employees in the dark. --Hal Lancaster
We who study management look particularly for populations in which change is rampant or people are trying to adjust to a more demanding context. That describes Silicon Valley... --William Sahlman
We think better on our feet than in our seats. Move your body throughout the day: sit, stand, squat, walk. Don't be a desk potato at work and a 'couch potato' at home. Challenge your body and your mind. -- Rajendra Paul
Want to show off? Walk into a room and say you're a happy person. Better yet, announce that you've been happily married for 25 years. Satisfaction and domestic contentment are the status symbols of the future. -- Watts Wacker
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. --Carl Sandberg
The fact that individuals share so few common associations for a given word, image or idea means that we are all magically and eerily different from each other. In other words, every human being is far more individual and unique than has hitherto been surmised. You who are now reading this sentence contain, in your brain, trillions of associations shared by one else, past, present or future. --Tony Buzan
We don't want people who are satisfied with the way things are. We want people who are curious, impatient, and who are constantly trying to buck the trend of perceived wisdom. --C.K. Prahalad
It appears that six or seven is the largest number of relationships that one person can deal with continuously. We need the hierarchy, with its well-defined roles and patterns of behavior, to allow large numbers of people to work together without overload. --Edward Tuck
The pursuit of money makes sense if it's one of many things -- health, family, offering service to the community, etc., -- in one's life. There's no need to repress money and thinking about money. On the other hand, money is one of the reasons people are dislocated from the things that matter in life. --Eric Tyson
It's troubling how the average American doesn't realize how close they are to an emotional collapse. You can't pursue the fast life forever. --Eric Tyson
For many who are hitting their 40's and 50's starting a business has special appeal. The chance to control and to own something can be intoxicating. These men and women have climbed the corporate ladder and found that they did not like what they saw when they got there, or discovered that that they were only halfway to the top and were not going to go any farther. Whatever the reason they all have asked themselves, "Is this how I want to spend the next 20 years of my working life?" --Cheryl Shavers
