Quotes by Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend

“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.

Owl

Top Management

Tree

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Heart

Inspirational

Leader

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.

Fighting

People

Thinking

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Jobs

Leadership

Running

An idea’s worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Ideas

Opposition

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can’t solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Business

Mistake

Two

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Business

People

Watches

Don’t hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Artist

Looks

Suggestions

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Business

Light

Tunnels

Getting there isn’t half the fun – it’s all the fun.

Fun

Half

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Artist

Business

Class

Communication

Company

Coolness

Decision

Discipline

Excellence

Excellent

Failure

Fighting

Flower

Focus

Fun

Half

Heart

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Jobs

Leader

Leadership

Light

Looks

Loyalty

Luck

Management

Manuals

Matter

Mistake

Motivational

Opposition

Organization

Owl

People

Policy

Poor

Priorities

Roots

Running

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Quotes by Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend

“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.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

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.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

An idea’s worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don’t hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Getting there isn’t half the fun – it’s all the fun.

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