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Philosophy

On Management and Leadership

• "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work" ~ Agha Hasan Abedi
• "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." ~ Stephen Covey

On Vision

• "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time, you haven't" ~ Peter Drucker
• "Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything." Peter Marshall
• "Sometimes the most important question we can ask is not how, or what, but why and why not" ~ Anonymous (See a great TED video on the subject below)
  
  
• "The best way to predict the future is to create it" ~ Abraham Lincoln

On Values and Integrity

• "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it, if you think about that you'll do things differently" ~ Warren Buffet
• "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is watching." ~ Jim Stoval
• "Values not exercised are at best hobbies" ~ John Stewart, The Daily Show
• "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."~ David Star Jordan, Philosophy of Despair

On Mistakes

• "Nothing is a waste of time, if you use the experience wisely" ~ Rodin
• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~Bill Cosby
• "You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming somebody else" ~ Anonymous
• “Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” ~ Denis Waiteley

And lastly

• See the following on how best to understand the content of the human mind from a Daniel Ackoff, a systems theorist and professor of organizational management http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
• The best leaders and incidentally - rarest - leaders are able to operate on the highest level of this hierarchy, while most operate at best on the knowledge level.