Administrators Quote by Robert Townsend

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs” quote by Robert Townsend — Download Open image

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs”

Robert Townsend

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

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If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

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Make every decision as if you owned the company.

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When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

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The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as…

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Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

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Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

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If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

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It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

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"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded…

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