Top 22 Robert Townsend Quotes
#1. 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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#2. A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
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#3. Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
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#4. Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
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#5. It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit ... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.
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#7. If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'
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#8. The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
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#9. Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
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#10. 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.
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#11. An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
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#12. We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
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#13. A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
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#14. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
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#15. When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
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#20. To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.
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#21. Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
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#22. 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 leaders.
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