A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.


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DAN PINK
Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebod...
DAN PINK
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent sale...
DAN PINK
If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're...
DAN PINK
Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very bes...
DAN PINK
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
PINK FLOYD
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
PINK FLOYD
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d...
PINK FLOYD
I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
PINK FLOYD
How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
PINK FLOYD
There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
PINK FLOYD
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
PINK FLOYD
And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
PINK FLOYD
Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the ...
DAN PINK
I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that ch...
DAN PINK
I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your...
DAN PINK
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the br...
DAN PINK
Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people'...
DAN PINK
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at somethin...
DAN PINK
I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ...
ARIEL PINK
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meani...
ARIEL PINK
I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know ...
ARIEL PINK
All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apa...
DAN PINK
Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two ...
DAN PINK
I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK
The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with ...
ARIEL PINK
I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part...
ARIEL PINK
I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Fred...
ARIEL PINK
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa...
PINK FLOYD
How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y...
PINK FLOYD
Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
ARIEL PINK
I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can b...
ARIEL PINK
My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not...
ARIEL PINK
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book...
DAN PINK
Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain....
PINK FLOYD
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
PINK FLOYD
Money, it's a gas,
PINK FLOYD
How could you treat me this way?Running away.I need you, Babe.Why are you running away?
PINK FLOYD
Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
PINK FLOYD
Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD
Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition, There's a hunger still unsatisfied, Our weary eyes still ...
PINK FLOYD
Dark Side of the Moon,
PINK FLOYD