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This isn't an MBA course on Management - it's just a collection of really clever epigrams that if followed, can make you a pretty good manager. Enjoy
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Managing by maxims and epigrams for slideshare
- 1. Managing by Maxims & By Peter de Jager Epigrams
- 2. Heraclitus? – 501 BCE Change is the Only constant
- 3. John Keats on Proverbs A proverb is no proverb to you ‘til life has illustrated it
- 5. Murphy’s Law If anything can go wrong… It will go wrong
- 6. Tolkien’s Reminder It does not do to leave a Live dragon out of your Calculations… If you live near him
- 7. At least 1,290,000,000 People We never have time to do it right We always have time to do it over
- 8. Daugherty`s Law Temporary things Tend to become
- 9. Daugherty`s Law Temporary things Tend to become
- 10. De Jager`s Law of Problems Never accept the user`s problem definition At face value…
- 11. Hildebrant’s Plotting Principle If we don’t know where we’re going? Any road will get us there.
- 12. Tatman`s Assumption Always assume that your Assumption Is Invalid
- 13. Cooks Theorem If you can`t solve a problem Forward It can usually be Solved Backward
- 14. de Jager’s Challenge Good problem solvers avoid more problems than they solve
- 15. de Jager`s Optimism Being pushed to the wall… Gives us the momentum we need To get over it.
- 16. William Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at their Best.
- 17. Robert A Heinlein - Lazarus Always Cut the cards
- 18. Bulin’s Advice If a thing is worth doing, It’s worth doing well
- 19. We CAN edit them… If a thing is NOT worth doing, It’s NOT worth doing well If at all
- 20. Scottish Proverb What may be done at Anytime Will be done at no Time
- 21. Robert A Heinlein Progress is made by Lazy men Looking for easier ways to do things
- 23. Elbert Hubbard To escape criticism Do nothing Say nothing Be nothing
- 24. Heinberg’s Change Rule You can’t do just one Thing
- 25. Upward Mobility Rule Don’t be irreplaceable If you can’t be replaced You can’t be promoted
- 26. Woodruff’s Work Rule Everybody Works For The Sales department
- 27. Summary? Why don’t we do What we know should be done?
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Editor's Notes
- Never neglect any available means of maximizing one’s chances in a situation controlled by random events