Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
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.
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.
The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.