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• Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years.
  Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade....
• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXVI -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXX -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXVII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXVIII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• The following appeared in an editorial in the local newspaper of Workville.
  "Workers should be allowed to reduce their workload from 40 to 25 or even 20 hours per week because it is clear that people who work part-time instead of full-time have better health and improved morale....
• XLVII: Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
  The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters....
• Dear Emily: I recently read an article that said, "reply by mail, I'll summarize.
  What should I do? -- Doubtful Dear Doubtful: Post your response to the whole net....
• There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.