Tag: Leadership

  1. STFL #11: Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
  2. STFL #55: The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about 5 seconds.
  3. STFL #73: Committees fail when focused on implementation and succeed when focused on direction and assigning responsibility.
  4. STFL #78: Disciplined children start with disciplined adults.
  5. STFL #105: No organization is a monolith.
  6. STFL #116: Knee-jerk reactions to current events might score political points, but make for terrible policies.
  7. STFL #129: The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
  8. STFL #131: Allow your boss take credit for your ideas, but when you're the boss, give your subordinates credit for your own ideas.
  9. STFL #136: All engineering problems are people problems.