Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

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.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.