Getting there isn’t half the fun—it’s all the fun.
—Robert C. Townsend
A good manager doesn’t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you’re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong—that’s healthy.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Management
Many ideas are good for a limited time—not forever.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Ideas
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Action, Stars
Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Focus, Time Management, Time
If you don’t do it with excellence, don’t do it at all! Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Business, Excellence
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Professionalism, Experts
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I’m still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Management
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people’s excuse for failure.
—Robert C. Townsend
Topics: Excuses, Failure, Leadership
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