... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bos...s's moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one an...other are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business..., he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a Sovereign should, by great accident, deviate into moderation, justice, and clemency, what a contemptible figure would he make... in the catalogue of Princes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest exe...cutive in the world. That is the Irish Question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consi...der a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »