Acquiescence Quote by Rush Limbaugh

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

— Barbara Tuchman

“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff…

— Alan G. Robinson

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have…

— Roberto Azevedo

“You can force compliance with your directions, you can require obedience, but you can’t mandate enthusiasm, creativity, fresh thinking, or inspiration. If you value…

— Roger Nierenberg

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.

— Herb Kelleher

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would…

— Jean Giraudoux

It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group…

— Keren Woodward

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

— Napoleon Hill

It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built,…

— Dan Wells

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Executives are afraid of losing control if subordinates try to roam too far. Conversely, hierarchy squelches talent by forcing rote standardization through the punishment…

— Stewart D. Friedman