Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 02/08/2012

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
     - General Colin Powell, Born 1937, American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.

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Avenues to Success for 01/31/2012

The difference between a boss and a leader:
a boss says, "Go! "
- a leader says, "Let's go."
     - E. M. Kelly    (I have no bio information)

 

 

Avenues to Success for 01/24/2012

 In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
     - Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis

 
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Avenues to Success for 01/20/12

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
     - Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005, American  author, management consultant, professor

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Avenues to Success for 01/19/12

A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
      - Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish Jesuit writer and philosopher

 
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Avenues to Success for 01/11/12

     As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
     - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward in Firing Back

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Avenues to Success for 12/30/11

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
     - John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, novelist, Nobel laureate

 

 

Avenues to Success for 12/24/11

I am in the world to change the world.

     - Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980, American poet and political activist

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Avenues to Success for 12/21/11

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
     - Don Marquis, 1878-1937, American humorist, journalist, and author

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Avenues to Success for 12/12/11

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
    - T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, American born English poet, critic, editor, playwright