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Wisdom about management & teams.
What people have learned about management & teams the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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- Be kind to the person. Disagree with an idea as much as you like. Never with someone’s worth.
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From the library
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There is no wealth but life.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
A great man is always willing to be little.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper; then let him teach others.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them). It is through this that they are difficult to govern.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge. He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.