#gem

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. ↗

— Hans Blix

#intention #management

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset. ↗

— Emily Blunt

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During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

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