The quotations which I have collected on Management and Leadership area are diverse. Workers must have respect for the leader. The workers should be well used and provided for. Problems and challenges are to be expected in the work and the management process. Hire good people and expect them to do good work. Recognize the unique talent of individuals. Recognize fruitful work from networks of individuals. Robert H. Waterman said, "While it is true that some people seem naturally creative and others not, we are too prone to leap to the conclusion that creativity is the realm of a relative few."
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The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that undermine it. I believe, to my core, that everybody has the potential to be creative—whatever form that creativity takes—and that to encourage such development is a noble thing.
-Ed Catmull
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it..
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
SELECTED QUOTES
Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.
-Bonnie Jean Thornley
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
-Brian Aldiss
The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that undermine it. I believe, to my core, that everybody has the potential to be creative—whatever form that creativity takes—and that to encourage such development is a noble thing.
-Ed Catmull
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.
-Ronald Reagan
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it..
-Theodore Roosevelt
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
-Pat Summitt
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
-Charles Kettering
Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.
-Sam Walton
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
-Karl E. Weick
Whenever you can hear laughter and somebody saying, 'But that's preposterous'--you can tell that things are going well and that something worth looking at has begun to happen in the lab.
-Lewis Thomas
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-Peter F. Drucker
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
-Jack Welch
Leadership is an action, not a position.
-Donald McGannon
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
-Henry Kissinger
Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
-Walt Disney
He was born to leadership.........
How he led is no mystery. His techniques were time-honored. He knew his men. He saw to it that they had dry socks, enough food, sufficient clothing. He pushed them to but never beyond the breaking point. He got out of them more than they knew they had to give. His concern for them was that of a father for his son. He was head of a family.
-Of Merewether Lewis , written by Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
How many of you do your best thinking and get your most creative ideas at work? When we ask people in our groups this question, no one ever raises their hand.
-Robert Kriegel and David Brandt
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
-John Buchan
Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
-Chester W. Nimitz
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
-W. Edwards Deming
"And George said, 'okay let me get this right.'" Steward says. "'We drilled this well to understand an objective we don't understand. And we plug the well without evaluating it? What were you thinking? What were you drinking? What were you smoking?' And he wasn't quite that nice."
-George P. Mitchell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
-Colin Powell
A wise man changes his mind three times a day, a fool never.
-Konosuke Matsushita
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
-Hedy Lamarr
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
-George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George S. Patton
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
-George Gilder
Committees are by nature – timid. Based on the premise of safety in numbers, content to survive rather than take risks and move independently ahead.
-Ferry Porsche
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.
-Grace Hopper
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
-Epictetus
SELECTED POSTERS
The above posters are (A - E) from my poster collection. I will be publishing more posters later. The following table Displays the position of these posters in my classification of Phases and Topics of the Creative Process. My posts will follow the order of the following table. This post is W.1 on the Importance of Creativity. It is W point 1 because I have many more posters on this topic and anticipate posting more as W.2 etc.
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List of the Phases and Topics correlated to the Steps in the Scientific Method. These phases and topics have been derived from study of quotations from many creative individual from many fields of endeavor.
My goal is to publish quote poster collections on A through W as individual posts, eventually. Currently my quote collection numbers over 4,000 and my poster collection includes nearly 1,400 different individuals. I have created over 50 posters for each Phase and Topic listed in the above table. Advise and wisdom from as many individuals as possible is my goal. These quotes and the posters have driven the classification above. - Apply for a free subscription. Thanks Walt.
Walter H Pierce