Agency Quote by Charles Duhigg

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to…

— Katharine Graham

“The leaders of good-to-great companies did not focus first on creating a vision or over-arching goal. Instead, they made sure to first get the…

— Eighty Twenty Publishing

“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your…

— Haruki Murakami

It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will…

— Ron Haviv

“Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.”

— Pearl Zhu

“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of…

— Christopher David Costanzo

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful…

— Richard V. Allen

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the…

— Michael Scheuer

“It was the same in just about every trade. Sooner or later someone decided it needed organizing, and the one thing you could be…

— Robert Silverberg

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

— Tom McCall

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

— Darren Hardy