It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried
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Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.Robert Townsend
If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings...then somewhere you have a leader.
Robert Townsend
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.
Robert Townsend
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective.
Robert Townsend
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there
Robert Townsend
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