Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

An objective without a plan is a dream.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.--- Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.