Alun Rees » Uncategorized http://www.alunrees.com The Professional Coach Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Monday Morning Quote http://www.alunrees.com/blog/the-monday-morning-quote-58/ http://www.alunrees.com/blog/the-monday-morning-quote-58/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:56 +0000 alun http://www.alunrees.com/?p=1849 “Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.”

Andrew Carnegie (Attributed)

I was made aware of this quote by Seth Godin’s blog Losing Andrew Carnegie

Carnegie apparently said,  “Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.”

Is there a typical large corporation working today that still believes this?

Most organizations now have it backwards. The factory, the infrastructure, the systems, the patents, the process, the manual… that’s king. In fact, shareholders demand it.

It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to embracing irreplaceable people, the linchpins, the ones that make a difference. Anything else can be replicated cheaper by someone else.

]]> http://www.alunrees.com/blog/the-monday-morning-quote-58/feed/ 0 The Monday Morning Quote http://www.alunrees.com/blog/the-monday-morning-quote-49/ http://www.alunrees.com/blog/the-monday-morning-quote-49/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:00:35 +0000 alun http://www.alunrees.com/?p=1483 Accepting full responsibility for every little thing in your life, is what opens the floodgates to joy and power.

Or to what we here call “joypower.”

Every little thing,

The Universe
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-William Arthur Ward

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–Tom Peters

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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