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“A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.”

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams quotes (American 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John Adams, 2nd US president. 1767-1848)

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“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”

Scott Adams quotes (American Cartoonist, b.1957)

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“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?”

Max De Pree quotes

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“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

John Dewey quotes (American Philosopher, Psychologist and Educator, 1859-1952)

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“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”

Dorothy Thompson quotes (American freelance writer, author of books for children, journalist and anthologist )

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“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

Casey Stengel quotes (American Baseball Player and Manager, 1891-1975)

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“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

William Ellery Channing quotes (American moralist, Unitarian Clergyman and Author, 1780-1842)

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“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination”

Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

Norman Schwarzkopf quotes (U.S. Army officer who commanded Operation Desert Storm, b.1934)

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