Dale Dauten Quotes
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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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.)
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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.
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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?"
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
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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.
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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
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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.