1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
7657
7658
7659
7660
7661
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a948f6 | previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled "Monster Machines," but she shook her head. "That's not really what Preston" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 60a3088 | on the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4853314 | Here in the eastern woodlands we have the black, common, tulip, and white morels, and one unfortunate little cousin called (I am so sorry) the Dog Pecker. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 63d15d9 | sounding surprised. "That'd make a nice hostess gift." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 047e09d | Cat, this is America, they let anybody vote. Crooks, wigs, even cookies like us. Dogs and cats, probably. Don't take Fido to the polls, he might cancel you out. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b108ff0 | Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b56c486 | WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice's family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack and she sits up in bed to get a closer look at her thoughts, which have collected above her in the dark. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c4db475 | People had to manage terrible truths. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 30aaa1d | Alabado sea el senor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtio inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partio de risa con los parasitos de Africa. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 84a7cc3 | A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4567362 | Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest...we'll call it a vegetannual. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b6300de | In summer a young rooster's fancy turns to...how can I say this delicately? The most ham-fisted attempts at courtship I've ever had to watch. (And yes, I'm including high school.) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ce44fd7 | All hope and future lost in a day. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3e6ff4e | Weeds are job security for the gardener. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9f0a2c0 | I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 88e5362 | Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ... | requited-love | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 23c6c58 | Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 349e2c7 | Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 95f6e5e | King Billy nectaring on the harbinger. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 922caf2 | we went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1e39ab1 | thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0cc8f27 | Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8af144a | Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1fe83c1 | Every kind of weather is intensified by warming. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5daca6c | Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a3af841 | Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5fa44e6 | Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3be6bd2 | Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1f2ad1a | Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 57ea351 | Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 24e0235 | Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ada0ce3 | Today was the day. Every day was the day. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 787b16e | The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 83e9920 | stopped: a final swish in the tall grass | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e4f00a2 | As Barbara Kingsolver said, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper." | Lavinia Spalding | ||
| dd99f76 | The assumptions about human knowledge underlying the ideal of the perfect plan have proven to be more stubborn. They were given a jolt by the oil price shocks of the 1970s, when the world revealed itself to be less stable than everyone had thought. They provided clear evidence that planners could not know everything they needed to know, and that the business environment had an element of unpredictability. Ironically, it was just at that tim.. | Stephen Bungay | ||
| 4dac686 | Does this sharing raise the risk that confidential information will fall into the wrong hands? Sure, sometimes (although refusing to share information is often a smokescreen for political games). But contrast this with the benefits of having better-informed people all around. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 409011a | Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 0592585 | The line between confidence and arrogance can be not only thin but also vague. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| 31978ea | The practices and artifacts of Scrum -backlogs, sprints, stand ups, increments, burn charts -reflect an understanding of the need to strike a balance between planning and improvisation, and the value of engaging the entire team in both. As we'll see later, Agile and Lean ideas can be useful beyond their original ecosystems, but translation must be done mindfully. The history of planning from Taylor to Agile reflects a shift in the zeitgeist.. | Peter Morville | ||
| f7e2e08 |
v deistvitel'nosti rabochikh ne interesuiut problemy, kotorye ne zatragivaiut neposredstvenno protsess truda, v kotorom oni uchastvuiut. Samoe udivitel'noe, chto v nekotorykh issledovaniiakh dokazyvaetsia, chto uchastie rabochikh vedet k usileniiu vysshego rukovodstva za schet drugikh grupp: <|
|
|
Henry Mintzberg |
|
| 00e9826 | to be a successful manager, let alone--dare I say--a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded. | Henry Mintzberg | ||
| f80f1eb | Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling. --Henry Mintzberg | Will Mancini | ||
| 19785d1 | Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS. | inspirational-quotes motivation motivational-quote passion results work-ethic | Ray Mancini |