
“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In”
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In”
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia”
Tito, as quoted in Julie Mertus' Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war (University of California Press, 1999), p. 22
Other
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”
“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 7
“Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”
This actually comes from the novel Children of the Arbat (1987) by Anatoly Rybakov. In his later book The Novel of Memories ( In Russian http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/auth_pages.xtmpl?Key=18637&page=307) Rybakov admitted that he had no sources for such a statement.
Misattributed