The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

(Tuis.) #1

Introduction................................................................................................................. Part 1: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking


ii) Thoughts worth thinking


‘Nothing really belongs to us but time,


which even he has who has nothing else’


Baltasar Gracian

‘Time


wasted
is existence,

used is


life’
Edward Young

‘I know what time is until someone asks me’


St Augustine


‘Become time obsessed. Virtually all staff processes


can be shortened by between 50 per cent and 99 per


cent. Directly tie performance evaluations to speed.


Remember: ‘What gets measured gets done’. Make


speed pay!’ Tom Peters

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