![One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.](/assets/img/quote-photos/one-common-behavior-of-late-stage-3-in-the-process-of-a-companys-decline-is-wh.jpg)
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leadership
He had the leadership to make that happen. Peter Yang
leadership doe compromise
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Woodrow Wilson
leadership patriotic listening-to-others
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
leadership battle half
Half-heartedness never won a battle. William McKinley
leadership self-esteem quality
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James
leadership character men
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. Samuel Smiles
leadership respect thinking
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. Tupac Shakur
leadership art done
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done Vance Packard
leadership teamwork long
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. Robert Reich
reality shadow substance
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood. Richard Whately
reality doors stage
If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show. Russell Hoban
reality years solitude
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks
reality people action
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities. William S. Burroughs
reality way faces
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
reality men world
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women... Virginia Woolf
reality giving actors
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene. Viola Spolin
reality people different
People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality. Wong Kar-wai
reality years magic
I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them. Woody Allen
data economic fed feeling improvement interest investors itself lower
I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.
data fed later mean raising rates seen weeks
Having seen all the data for May, our sense is the Fed won't be raising rates in two weeks but that doesn't mean they won't be tightening rates later this summer,
data economic support
I think technically (Monday's increase) could be sound, as long as we don't get any economic surprises. The data should support this level.
data people together
I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research. Robert Pozen
data trying earth
... global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature. Walter Cunningham
data suffering tests
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another. Robert M. Pirsig
data doctors needs
Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors Vinod Khosla
data medicine years
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
data engineering administration
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. Vinton Cerf