A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.