Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.


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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
PATRICK EWING
I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity...
PATRICK EWING
When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I...
PATRICK EWING
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&...
PATRICK EWING
Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
PATRICK EWING
Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Sea...
PATRICK EWING
Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
PATRICK EWING
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
PATRICK EWING
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING
If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh...
PATRICK EWING
Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
PATRICK EWING
People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma...
PATRICK EWING
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING
I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
PATRICK DUFFY
I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w...
PATRICK DUFFY
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite...
PATRICK DUFFY
Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr...
PATRICK DUFFY
It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ...
PATRICK DUFFY
I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ...
PATRICK DUFFY
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ...
PATRICK DUFFY
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A...
PATRICK DUFFY
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc...
PATRICK DUFFY
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
PATRICK DUFFY
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
PATRICK DUFFY
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma...
PATRICK DUFFY
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th...
PATRICK DUFFY
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o...
PATRICK DUFFY
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ...
PATRICK DUFFY
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but...
PATRICK DUFFY
There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
PATRICK DUFFY
Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am...
PATRICK DUFFY
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT
Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT
I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT
When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT