I wanted them to have a life outside the office. I am paying them for the quality of their work, not for the hours they work. That kind of environment has always produced the best results for me.

Colin Powell, It Worked for Me – in Life and Leadership

In my early years as a developer, I was privileged to work on a project managed by Sharon Weinberg, later to become president of the Codd and Date Consulting Group. She was a walking example of much of what I now think of as enlightened management. One snowy day, I dragged myself out of a sickbed to pull together our shaky system for a user demo. Sharon came in and found me propped up at the console. She disappeared and came back a few minutes later with a container of soup. After she’d poured it into me and buoyed up my spirits, I asked her how she found time for such things with all the management work she had to do. She gave me her patented grin and said, “Tom, this is management.”

If you don’t like someone’s story, you write your own.

Chinua Achebe

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In

私たちは、先にテーマがあって、それを表現するために作品を創るのではなく、混沌とした自分の世界観に何らかの形を与えるために表現をするのだ。

平田オリザ「演劇入門」

Q: The key to success in three words, please?
A:  People. People. People.

Richard Branson, Like A Virgin

Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Peter Thiel, Zero to One

The transition begins not by trying to discipline the wrong people into the right behaviors, but by getting self-disciplined people on the bus in the first place.

Jim Collins, Good to Great

Why, it simply wouldn’t be fair! We all need to be equally, miserably unproductive at the office and suffer in unity!

Jason Fried and David Hansson, Remote: Office Not Required