Antony Jay Quotes

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

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  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

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  Leadership, Real, Coaching

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

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  Corporations, Possibility, Casts

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

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  Ideas, Done, Lines

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• You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

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  Leadership, Jobs, People

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

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  Facts, Exile, Opposition

  Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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• You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

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  People, Judging, Leader

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

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  Men, Young, Grows

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

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  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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