“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quoteinvestigator.com
“Deeply understand where someone is. What led them to their conclusions. And then to fill in context and sort of draw a path from where they are to you are. And then you can both walk on it. That's a much better way to both get to the truth and build a much stronger relationship with that person.”— J.D. Ross, offrcrd.com
“When I had an opinion whether I was right or wrong. I viewed my job as taking someone from their position to mine as efficiently as possible. That doesn't work.”— J.D. Ross, offrcrd.com
“Many managers over-involve themselves. Not even micromanage, but are simply around the work being done too often. They get in the way.”— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com
“But a far more insidious thing happens when people choose to turn off their imaginations: Nothing. An empty house rotting, becoming overgrown with brush, and overrun by rodents.”— Rebekah Cox, artypapers.com