There are no neat categories when it comes to management actions which resemble prose and those which are more poetic. What resounds beautifully when one person does it may clank when done by another. Good and poor management can have a "know it when you see it" nature because the mixture of events and personalities is fluid and the waves shift. I've seen measures which are acclaimed by groups which would have detested them a couple of years or even months earlier.
That's why you want your study and experience to build a reserve of intuition which can be called upon even when you are unaware of the calling. You want your instinctive choices to be based on that knowledge and not on mere nerve endings.
We often pretend to reason what we have already known. In many instances we know the footnotes long before writing the paper.
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action.
- Chester Barnard
FutureLawyer blogger Rick Georges remembers his father in a poem. An excerpt:
He stood at the grave.
The soldiers were at attention
and the mourners bore sad witness
to his Father’s passing.
He remembered the stern voice
demanding whether his homework was complete
and the smell of dirt
on the baseball field
where they played.
He still tasted the Coca Cola at the All-Star game
when he walked just about everyone
and his Father left him in the game.
The Pioneer Woman shows how to make chicken enchiladas.
[A personal aside: Years ago, I was the literary agent for Gourmet Gringo, an excellent Mexican food cookbook written by Mari Meyers, an old friend. It has great recipes gleaned from the Arizona-Sonora area. Check it out.]
The Wade and Hudson families in the 1920s in the farming community of Peoria, Arizona.
My father is the boy on the right in bib overalls. My grandfather is the man wearing the hat in the back row. My grandmother is to his left. Great people. Strong values. Hard workers.
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
- Bill Cosby
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
- Pope John XXIII
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me."
- Jim Valvano
"A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be."
- Carol Coats
"My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."
- Spike Milligan
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
- Sidney Poitier
Eclecticity Light is always finding great places to blog. I want this place.
When they reached the top of the hill from which the road snaked down in the Seven Sister's bends, the driver nodded to the opposite hill and said, 'El-telq.' Felix knew that did not mean Jerusalem, although Jerusalem was over there.
- From School for Love by Olivia Manning
