A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.
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Most computer technicians are complicators, not simplifiers. They're trying to make it look tough. Not easy. They're building a mystique, a priesthood, their own mumbo-jumbo ritual to keep you from knowing what they - and you - are doing.Robert Townsend
If asked when you can deliver something, ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised. The world is divided into two classes of people the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.
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Deals aren't usually blown by principals they're blown by lawyers and accountants trying to prove how valuable they are.
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Getting there isn't half the fun -- it's all the fun.
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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
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