Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.