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• To paraphrase the late management thinker and writer, Peter Drucker, thinking is hard work, which is why so few people (including actually senior managers) do it. Once there is some "conventional," seemingly-reasonable story, people just accept it and don't ask, "is this actually true? Is it consistent with the data?" And this extends to the highest reaches of organizational life.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

  Bill Cosby

  College, Down And, Next

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• For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9pm! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. Why can't I do this? Why are there so many rules? But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

  Amy Chua

  Father, Home, Long

  "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". Interview with Heather Hodson, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  Kalpana Chawla

  Jobs, Hands, People

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• Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

  Jimmy Carter

  Leadership, Israel, Age

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

  Nick Cannon

  Years, People, Soul

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• I began my career in communications and had the privilege of working with senior leaders in a variety of different business sectors. Eventually I decided that rather than helping them develop messages I wanted to help shape lives, that is through teaching, coaching and writing.

  John Baldoni

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

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• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  Steve Buscemi

  School, Years, Acting

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2017.

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• The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Class, Desire, Majority

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2010). “Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Large Print 16pt)”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.

  Alec Baldwin

  School, College, Years

  "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.

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• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

  Roald Dahl

  School, Boys, Facts

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.137, Penguin

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

  Evan Davis

  Mean, Editors, Two

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• So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

  James Earl Jones

  Years, Class, Sophomore

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

  Derek Jeter

  School, Skip

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 26, 2008.

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• I have participated as a leader in many organizations where the leadership culture was just mean - ugly, where competitiveness, and destructive relationships stymied progress. There should be healthy tension and candid debate, but leadership teams need to practice communication, relationship building, emotional intelligence, and be aligned around common purpose to achieve organizational success. Senior leaders, chief executive officers, others need to ensure they are fostering the right environment for leadership otherwise all of that ugliness will trickle through the organization.

  James Merlino

  Team, Communication, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What's interesting about Navalny is that he has run a - not so much a pro-democracy campaign in Russia, but an anti-corruption campaign. He seems to have access to quite a lot of information about very senior Russians, including Putin.

  Anne Applebaum

  Running, Interesting

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Space is our tool to take care of the world. From space, we know the Earth is fragile, and we can follow oil spills and forest fires, and monitor the environment and save it. The needs of remote communities and the needs of astronauts are similar. Canada is a country that is big and has a lot of people living in faraway places. Physicians in remote areas need to have contact with more senior colleagues. We depend on telehealth for advice, X-rays, labs. At the most simple technical level, space technology contributes to remote health care.

  David Saint-Jacques

  Country, Technology, Simple

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to. But I spent two and a half years in India and chose to do stories about women because I was shocked by their treatment. My stories in the Middle East and on the border of Europe and Asia were a response to my time in India. They weren't driven by a feminist idea but when you're moved by women's issues in these countries you can't help becoming a feminist somehow.

  Olivia Arthur

  Country, Feminist, Helping

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people.

  Jim Acosta

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Responsibility, Purpose, Employee

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Drug, Towns, Benefits

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Mistake, Reality

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Groups, Juniors

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• Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

  David Cay Johnston

  Fashion, Children, Taxes

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Motivation, Worry

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