The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged. . . But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.