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6 Actions Even the Least Confrontational Managers Must Take to Hold Employees Accountable | Entrepreneur
Whether I liked it or not, people were moved by emotion, not facts. To elicit the best rather than the worst of those emotions, to buttress those better angels of our nature with reason and sound policy, to perform while still speaking the truth—that was the bar I needed to clear.
Barack Obama • A Promised Land
He would direct questions to each person around the table, and all members were free to contribute their thoughts on any subject, regardless of their responsibilities.”
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
was a box checker—marching to the resolute beat of effort/result, effort/result—a
Michelle Obama • Becoming
The Obamas Strike Back — The Ezra Klein Show
overcast.fm“With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you. It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.” —Pr
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By the end of Obama’s second month in office, Newsweek ran a tongue-in-cheek cover story asserting, “We are all socialists now,” and even the lofty New York Times picked up the right wing’s framing of Obama as outside the American mainstream. In a presidential interview, the paper asked whether he was a socialist. Obama was apparently so stunned he
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