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I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.
retire-or-expire
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Live Long and Prosper
of elective office), the yearly term was voted in.
Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
Law Number XXIX: 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.
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening
Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.
At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.
The dignity of history.
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
The secret of my success is longevity.
Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)
A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.
Two hundred years of work experience was a human resources nightmare.
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.
I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.
I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.
Thanks to the unwanted privilege of being the oldest employee.
The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.
The legacy of the past is the foundation of the present.
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To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
If your opinions and commitments appear to change from year to year or decade to decade, what are the more abstract underlying convictions that have held steady, that might never have become visible without the surface variation?
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.
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The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.
Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
Our legacy comprises the spiritual, intellectual, relational, vocational, and social capital we pass on. It's the sum total of the beliefs you embrace, the values you live by, the love you express, and the service you render to others.
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
A man can't retire his experience.
Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.
I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, ... to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it ...
Change is the watchword of progression.
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.
A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
Harriet Martineau
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.
Success without a successor is a failure
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.
A new threshold of sorts was crossed in 2013 when Jim DeMint (R-SC), with four years still remaining in his Senate term, resigned from office to become president of the Heritage Foundation, not only because he could exert more influence there than as a sitting senator (or so he claimed - which,
The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Change is fearsome, but stagnation is lethal.
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.
I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.