A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.