“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In”
James C. Collins book Good to Great
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”
James C. Collins book Good to Great
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia”
Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman
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.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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/, <br class="br">Misattributed
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 7
Raymond Geuss (1946) British philosopher
Source: Outside Ethics (2005), p. 9.
“Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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. <br class="br">Misattributed