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We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

New York Times (1993)
Most individuals, by the time they reach maturity, have built up an array of concepts which they use to interpret the data they observe.

Understanding Organisations (1993)
We are self-activating organisms, and can, to some degree, control our own destiny and our own responses to pressures... we can select our goals and choose the paths toward them.

Understanding Organisations (1993)
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Security no longer comes from being employed. It comes from being employable.

Changing Workplace (1997)
Tensions and conflict between work life and personal life will never be fully resolved... We must give people the support they need to pursue business opportunities fully without shortchanging the human relationships that are of equal importance.

When Giants Learn to Dance: Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management and Careers in the 1990s (1992)
Having entered upon work, continue in that line of work. Fight it out on that line (except in extreme cases), for it matters little what avenue a young man finds first. Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit.

'From Oakland: How to Succeed in Life,' The Pittsburgh Bulletin (1903)
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
I'm just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got sort of side-tracked here.

Fortune (October 1, 1984)
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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