“Behind the the scenes of the fantastic success of Operation Flood is the nearly invisible skillful guding hand, vision and the brilliant mind and the unique management skill of Kurien.”

— Verghese Kurien

By Norman Borlauge in "Our Leaders".

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Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul 1921–2012

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Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++

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Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community

The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

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“By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C. E. O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.”

Ben Horowitz (1966) American businessman

Ben Horowitz, " What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology http://www.bhorowitz.com/what_s_the_most_difficult_ceo_skill_managing_your_own_psychology," at bhorowitz.com, March 31, 2011.