“People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.”

— Marvin Bower

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 24 cited in: Rodney B. Plimpton (1976) Top management leadership and organizational performance. p. 52

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American business theorist 1903–2003

Richard Boyatzis (1946) American business theorist

Source: Competent manager (1982), p. 23.

“In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.”

C. Wright Mills book White Collar: The American Middle Classes

White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951)

“Skill is a property of a person; it is a person's ability to demonstrate a system and sequence of behaviour that [is] functionally related to attaining a performance goal.”

Richard Boyatzis (1946) American business theorist

Source: Competent manager (1982), p. 33.

“People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

“[Each person] is a member of one or more functioning workgroups that have a high degree of group loyalty, effective skills of interaction and high performance goals.”

Rensis Likert (1903–1981) American statistician

Source: New patterns of management, (1961), p. 104

“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

“The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association (9 January 1909)
1900s

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”

Charles Platt (1945) Author, journalist and computer programmer

“A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.”

Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Universalist minister (1771–1852)

Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 758.

“Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”

Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States

Endorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring (29 July 1875).
1870s

“People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.”

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