Dale Dauten Born : September 30, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Dale Dauten Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. Dale Dauten stubborn government giving 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.) Dale Dauten bored business moving A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room. Dale Dauten mind rooms moving The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite. Dale Dauten insightful names opportunity 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. Dale Dauten skills reflection mean It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten printer business brain 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 Dale Dauten falling-in-love careers inspirational 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. Dale Dauten track motivational mean 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. Dale Dauten sorry home jobs If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler. Dale Dauten wayne half add Nothing important can be taught, only learned. Dale Dauten taught important 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?" Dale Dauten track careers motivational Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Dale Dauten nine appreciation Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down. Dale Dauten knocking lawyer people It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper. Dale Dauten appreciate business paper Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time. Dale Dauten thank-you appreciation inspirational Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. Dale Dauten success-and-failure enough-time possibility One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward. Dale Dauten greed curiosity journey Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others. Dale Dauten some-people skill like people Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living. Dale Dauten worth job money life
