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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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Jobs
Leadership
Running
People
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Make every decision as if you owned the company.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Company
Decision
Ifs
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Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Fun
Half
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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Art
Artist
Coolness
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An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Ideas
Opposition
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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
Robert Townsend / Executive
Time
Focus
Priorities
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If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'
Robert Townsend / Executive
Manuals
Policy
Ten Commandments
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Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Business
Light
Tunnels
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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Inspirational
Heart
Leader
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Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Discipline
Flower
Roots
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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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Business
People
Watches
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We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Business
Communication
Management
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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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Excellence
Excellent
Fun
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When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Leadership
Failure
People
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It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Ideas
Poor
Sponsors
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Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Artist
Looks
Suggestions
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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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Luck
Matter
Organization
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"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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Owl
Top Management
Tree
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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.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Fighting
People
Thinking
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The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Class
People
Two
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If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Leadership
Fun
Mistake
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It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Loyalty
Motivational
Leader
People
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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.
Robert Townsend / Executive
Business
Mistake
Two
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