Alison Price

she is never distracted and always makes Dave feel important and valued

Give clear instructions so that people understand exactly what you are asking them to do for you.

keep control of your emotions.

People need to feel that the distribution of work has been fair, in terms of the quantity, quality and schedule

the team’s customers and your own team members. It’s a manager’s job to balance the needs of both parties.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Firstly, make sure that you take regular ‘time out’ to look at the bigger picture, and to work out what you want from life. You get so caught up in the rat race of life that it usually takes a crisis to make you step back and re-visit what your priorities are.

the effort we put in equals the reward that we expect to get as a result of our effort.

if you want to achieve something really difficult, in order to be able to keep putting in sustained effort and to succeed, you have to really want to achieve your goal.

The more you want to achieve the goal and the more you can enjoy the achieving of it, the better motivated you will be to put the effort into it.