The document is a presentation about secretaries and administrative assistants. It contains several quotes highlighting the important role secretaries play in organizations by keeping things running smoothly and serving as gatekeepers. The presentation emphasizes that secretaries are "the pulse of the office" and hold responsibility without actual power. It concludes by stating that the presenter is an administrative assistant and lists some common administrative support roles.

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3. I AM…

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5. “Someday people who know how to
use computers will rule over those
that don’t. And there will be special
name for them - Secretaries.”
Scott Adams

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9. “Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.”
Lord Mancoft

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12. “Always be nice to secretaries, they are the real gatekeepers in
the world.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo

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15. “And so while the ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner,
racking her brain to record and report what she thinks that they think that they ought to have
thought.”
Arthur Bryant

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18. “My boss frequently gets lost in
thought. That’s because its
unfamiliar territory”.
“Executive ability is deciding
quickly and getting somebody
else to do the work.”
John G. Pollard

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20. “Responsibility without power – the fate of the secretary thru the
ages.”
Ariel Dorfman

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23. “Accomplishing the impossible means
only that your boss will add it to your
regular duties”

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I AM AN
• ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
• EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
• OFFICE COORDINATOR
• OFFICE MANAGER
• A RECEPTIONIST
THE PULSE OF THE OFFICE OR ORGANIZATION
“ I CAN DO NO OTHER ANSWER MAKE,
BUT, THANKS AND, THANKS.”
William Shakespeare

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