Сотрудники, которые не знают, чего от них ждут, увольняются.

Короткий конспект книги Бодо Шефера «Простое лидерство»

О чём эта книга? Зачем её нужно прочесть? Какую пользу и выгоду принесет вам обмен времени и внимания на прочтение?

Люди - как музыкальные инструменты: их звучание зависит от того, кто к ним прикасается. Вергилий

Эта книга, о человеке, который сумел настроить «расстроенный инструмент» - команду, которая была на грани развала. Вернее, она была уже развалена...

У каждого человека есть свой КЭ - коэффициент эффективности. Делает ли он то, что в состоянии делать, добивается ли тех целей, которые перед собой поставил? Причина снижения КЭ в компании- плохое управление!

3 аспекта эффективного лидерства: 1. Задачи для разума (Что надо делать?) 2. Вспомогательные средства для рук (С помощью чего надо делать?) 3. Принципы для сердца (Как и зачем и надо делать?)

«Для чего вы сюда пришли?» Задайте такой вопрос своим сотрудникам на собрании. Пускай каждый ответит, знает ли он, чего от него ожидают? Пускай поставит себе оценку своей эффективности для команды?

Степень эффективности, которую вы проявляете в жизни, находится в прямой зависимости от вашего умения управлять людьми.

Умение руководить людьми - главный фактор, определяющий различие между успехом и провалом, между удачно сложившейся жизнью и посредственным прозябанием.

Фокусируйте возможности и концентрируйте энергию людей.

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

We can't choose the number of our age, but we CAN choose the age of our attitude.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

I know competition is there, and it can come my way by new, fresh faces that are around or are coming up. It pushes me to work hard. I know if I don't work hard, I will be left behind. So, I continue to work hard.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

I have been accused of never saying no.

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says This is my own.

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

Politics has become entertainment.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I'll keep reaching.

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Nowhere else is it possible to experience in such a small area so many different cultures and social conditions such diverse vegetation and such varied landscape as in the Caribbean.