A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.