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Robert H. Waterman Quotes

born 1942 United States

Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (born ca. 1942) is an American management consultant, a non-fiction author, and expert on business management practices, who worked for McKinsey & Company.

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Also known as: Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

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Visible management attention, rather than management exhortation, gets things done. Action may start with the words, but it has to be backed by symbolic behavior that makes those words come alive.

Man is a maker of meanings in a world that sometimes seems without meaning. Few things help us find meaning more than a cause to believe in, better yet, about which to get excited. Renewing organizations seem to run on causes.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert H. Waterman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.