Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The present is never a happy state to any being

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.