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This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial crisis; it's anxiety about inequality and about computers replacing jobs. ”
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. ”
Effective management always means asking the right question. ”
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. ”
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. ”
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.' ”
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record. ”
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. ”
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. ”
What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression. ”