You would not let your kids ...

You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.
You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.
 John Kao

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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 Laozi
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
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 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
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 Carlos Castaneda
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
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 Monica Crowley
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
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You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.
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 John Kao
You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.
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 John Kao
The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.
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 John Kao
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.
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 John Kao
There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.
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 John Kao