Chapter 8

Selected Quotes

· “Managing and management should be discarded. Management, with its attendant images—cop, referee, devil’s advocate, dispassionate analyst, naysayer, pronouncer—connotes controlling and arranging and demeaning and reducing. Leadership connotes unleashing energy building, freeing, and growing.”

-Tom Peters

· “American organizations have been over managed and under led.”

-Warren Bennis

· “The problems all start at the top. They hire consultants, draw up plan after plan—but somebody’s got to execute, somebody’s got to manage.”

-Al Dunlap

· “Managers are a self-selecting population. Those who choose managerial careers, like fire fighters, have a lot in common. The best embody stereotypes of both genders. Managers, like everyone else, should be judged according to their abilities, not their genes.”

-Gary Power

University of Connecticut

· “Everything requires time. It is the only true universal condition. All work takes place and uses time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”

-Peter Drucker

· “College life is a mirror or reflection of life.”

· “Opportunity is limited only by our mind and that choosing to do nothing is really choosing to do something. Nothing is something!”

· “The issue of time is not what we have done but what we have become. It soon becomes apparent that the critical element is progress, not longevity. The question is not how much time we have logged, but how far we have progressed.”

-Dallin H. Oaks

· “The question is sometimes asked by younger priesthood holders, ‘Where do I place my greatest priorities—to the Church, to my family, or to my profession?’ I have ansered that question by emphasizing that heads of families have four major responsibilities. Certainly the first is to the home and family. There should be no question about this. A man may succeed in business or his Church calling, but if he fails in his home he will face eternity in disappointment. One of the great areas of emphasis in President Spencer W. Kimball’s administration was that fathers spend more time at home. This includes priesthood officers! Home is the place where the Lord intended a father’s greatest influence to be felt.”

-Ezra Taft Benson

· “Someone once asked me how I came to be a good decision maker. And I said, ‘Because of all the bad decisions.’”

-Jim Amos

· “Jesus also taught us how important it is to use our time wisely. This does not mean there can never be any leisure, for there must be time for contemplation and for renewal, but there must be no waste of time. How we manage time matters so very much, and we can be good managers of time without being frantic or officious. Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. The tyranny of trivia consists of its driving out the people and moments that really matter. Minutia holds momentous things hostage, and we let the tyranny continue all too often. Wise time management is really the wise management of ourselves.”

-Spencer W. Kimball

Jesus: The Perfect Leader

· “All successful people have the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”

-Albert E. Gray