Tabitha Soren Quotes

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

I just kept making social mistakes in my career.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing.

I believe that Attorney Fortuno has some styles that it seems to me are going to foster dialogue and good communication, and I hope I am not mistaken.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.