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Robert Townsend Quotes: A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
         

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.


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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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To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.



"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.



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If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'





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