At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.