A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what’s in their job description.
There is no job description for the first lady and she’s only there because her husband got elected president.
It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that’s the job description.
Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract’s wording.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.
Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.
My job description is… being enthusiastic.
How can you run for president if you don’t know the job description?
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