Organization

Gaius Petronius - Reorganizing

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. … I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.”

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter (27-66)

manage lead

“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.”

― Stan Slap

leadership value change live

“The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.”

― Stan Slap

“The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not t...

“The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.”

― Stan Slap

idea good implementation

"The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.”

― Jay Samit

people honor leader fail fullfill

“If you fail to honor your people, they will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that when the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, “We did this ourselves.” "

— Lao Tzu, 604-531 BC

leaders born made work hard

“Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work.”

— Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

leadership vision articulate trumpet

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow a weak trumpet.”

— Theodore Hesburgh

leader pig elephant scallion

“There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”

— Liu Shao-chi

teori praksis ntnu

"Teori er når man forstår alt, men ingenting virker.

Praksis er når alt virker, men ingen forstår hvorfor.

Ved NTNU forenes teori og praksis slik at ingenting virker og ingen forstår hvorfor."

lead people

"If you want to lead people, you have to enter their world"

—Warren G. Bennis (1925-2014)

Hopper - lead people

"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership."

—Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)

new - stop old

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)

IBM Watson think study

"And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing, and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of studying. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter - thinking - because it's hard work for people to think".

—Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956)

dilbert moron leadership

"Leadership is nature’s way of removing morons from the productive flow”

—Dilbert

genius lead deconstruct complexity exploit simplicity

“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.”

— Andy Benoit