“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—(Quotes of the Day)

All Congress can do is legislate and investigate, and if they don’t investigate…

Tom Peters decodes business jargon, some of it clearly tongue-in-cheek. My favorites:

“Empowerment”
“Trust”

“Business Process Re-engineering”
“You won’t believe how much the software we’re trying to sell you will cost”

“You can explain things to people but you can’t understand for them.”—(Newshour, April 4, 2006)

Leadership is kind of a one act play. in other words, it’s this intense journey into yourself:

• How fast you can grow.
• How much can learn.
• How much you want to give.
• A sense of confidence.

It’s about finding your own voice. You’re going to make some mistakes. Sometimes you have a lot of advisors but you get you no advice.

He said it took 18 months to gain confidence that he could do the job…

(Charlie Rose, March 10, 2006)

“You don’t take the fire chief job after someone has burned down the city unless you are going to be able to do it in the right fashion.” —(Ellis M. Stanley, general manager of emergency planning in Los Angeles, quoted by the New York Times)