Dale Dauten

Dale Dauten
Dale Alan Dauten is an American business management columnist, author, professional speaker, management coach and mediator...
impress respect
They're someone you respect enough you want to impress them.
original time
It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.
control fall forget instead love search
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
government giving benefits
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
moving bored mind
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
moving mind rooms
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room.
mean skills decision
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
motivational careers track
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
motivational mean track
Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
falling-in-love careers discipline
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse
jobs sorry home
Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.
appreciation nine
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.
people lawyer knocking
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
appreciate paper software
It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.