8. 100 Top Action Verbs for Schmoozing, Socializing, Shindigs, Getting Sentimental, or Using Your Networking to Work the Room

(2) receive with gladness and approval

(3) receive; take something being offered

(4) bow to; endure; put up with; resign yourself to; tolerate

—Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar and philosopher (1844–1900)

(1) “Accept your genius and say what you think.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, lecturer, and essayist (1803–1882)

(1) “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I will help you become that.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1749–1832)

(1) “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we;’ they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

—Peter F. Drucker, American educator and writer (1909– 2009)

(2) adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get use to; make suitable

(3) house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up

(4) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat

(5) do a favor or a service for someone

—Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

(1) “If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.”

—Chinese Proverb

—Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1856–1924)

(1) “Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.”

—Robert Dale Owen, American politician (1801–1877)

Collocates to: choice, compelled, council, demands, forced, must, quietly, refused

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, lecturer, and essayist (1803–1882)

(1) “I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”

—Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809–1865)

(1) “Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.”

—Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

—Koolster, Dan. “Campesinos and Mexican Forest Policy During the Twentieth Century,” Latin American Research Review, Volume 38, Issue 2, 2003: pg. 94.

—Herman Wouk, American author (1915–)

Collocates to: connotations, dominance, imagined, less, making, nothing, rather

—Smith, Douglas. “A Lockean Analysis of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 25, Issue 3, Summer 2002: pg. 1095.

—Grossman, Mindy. “HSN’s CEO on Fixing the Shopping Networks Culture,” Harvard Business Review, December 2011: pg. 44.

(1) “When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.”

—Chester Bowles, American diplomat and politician (1901–1986)

—William James, American philosopher and psychologist (1842–1910)

(1) “Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1749–1832)

(1) “It’s important for companies to gather insights from former outsiders who have assimilated successfully; managers who have grown up in an organization often don’t realize they even have a culture.”

—Watkins, Michael. “Help Newly Hired Executives Adapt Quickly,” Harvard Business Review, June 2007: pg. 26.

—Alan Loy McGinnis, American author and Christian psychotherapist (1933–2005)

Collocates to: design, effort, goals, program, resources

—Dawson, Robert and Grey Brechin. “How Paradise Lost,” Mother Jones, Volume 21, Issue 6, November–December 1996: p38.

(2) spread something in an unfavorable context

(3) toss or hit something back and forth

—J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer (1892–1973)

(1) “To judge by the life choices we make, then, there are dozens of reasons for women to be pro-abortion. Yet not since the heady early days of the abortion rights movement in the late 1960s have we heard its leadership bandy around the phrase that summarizes the right we want and have come to expect: ‘abortion on demand.’”

—Hax, Carolyn. “No Birth, No Pangs,” Washington Post, March 21, 1993.

(2) fight back against a bully

—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (1547-1616)

(1) “We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.”

—Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President (1924–)

(1) “Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star.”

—Wilfred Peterson, American author (1900–1995)

—Schermerhorn, John, Richard Osborn, Mary UHL-Bien, and James Hunt. Organizational Behavior, 12^th Edition, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012, pg. 4.

(1) “Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.”

—G. K. Chesterton, English-born Gabonese critic, essayist, novelist, and poet (1874–1936)

(1) “Every human has four endowments—self awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”

—Stephen R. Covey, American writer of business books (1932–2012)

(1) “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.”

—Albert Einstein, American theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

(1) Bob was able to coalesce more than 100 diverse stakeholders into an effective, efficient company asset.

(1) “The way to create job benchmarks is by inviting the key stakeholders and the team of subject matter experts to collaborate on defining the position.”

—Hayashi, Shawn Kent. Conversations for Creating Star Performers, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2012: pg. 19.

(1) “EMCF’s ability to collaborate with industry peers created substantial benefits for society and set an example for others—notably the Obama administration, which found the pilot and inspiration for its Social Innovation Fund....”

—Tierney, Thomas. “Collaborating for the Common Good,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2011: pg. 38.

(1) “A traditional project management approach would not work for the proposed project. Success depended on bridging dramatically different national, organizational, and occupational cultures to collaborate in fluid groupings that emerged and dissolved in response to needs that were identified as the work progressed.”

—Edmondson, Amy C. “Teamwork on the Fly,” Harvard Business Review, April 2012: pg. 74.

(1) In today’s global economy, many businesses must practice coopitition which is collaboration with not only intradepartmental groups but also vendors, suppliers, stakeholders, NGOs, and, in some cases, competitors.

—Horst, Gary. “Business Advisor, CEOs Need a NEW Set of Beliefs,” HBR Blog, September 21, 2012: pg. 22.

(1) “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

—Dianne Feinstein, American senator (1933–)

(1) “Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them, and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.”

—Lee Iacocca, American, business executive (1924–)

(1) “Mayor Bill Akers of Seaside Heights, NJ now removed from the whirlwind of Hurricane Sandy’s ferocity, and with the benefit of hindsight, the major says he has his regrets. He could, he says, have stopped by one of the shelters to speak to residents personally. He would have communicated information sooner.”

—Goldberg, Dan. “Responses to Sandy: From Great to Galling,” Middlesex Edition, Star Ledger, November 11, 2012: pg. 1.

Collocates to: ability, able, effectively, information, language, ways

(1) Hank will manage the team conducting the prelaunch tests.

—William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

—Editors. “The Listings,” New York Times, Section C, Column 0, May 27, 2011: pg. 18.

Collocates to: confuse, process, public, religion, tends, tendency, two, words

—James Reston, Scottish journalist (1909–1995)

(1) “A man’s faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.”

—Chinese Proverb

—Gary Ryan Blair, American motivational speaker and author

(1) “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

—Herman Melville, American short-story writer, novelist, and poet (1819–1891)

(1) “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”

—Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur and co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

(1) “Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast, and connect fast.”

—Linda Chandler, American businesswoman, executive, and entrepreneur

(1) One approach the diocese has taken to cut costs is to consolidate the five parish schools into one.

—Yamauchi, Wakako. “Annie Hall,” Hyphen Magazine, Issue 22, Winter 2010: pg. 56.

—Umlas, Elizabeth. “Environmental Networking in Mexico: The Comite Nacional para la Defensa de los Chimalapas,” Latin American Research Review, Volume 33, Issue 3, 1998: pg. 161.

(1) “Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal.”

—Walt Disney, American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, and international icon (1901–1965)

(1) “My experience in government is that when things are noncontroversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.”

—John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President (1917–1963)

(1) “For Hayek, market institutions are epistemic devices—means whereby information that is scattered about society and known in its totality by no one can be used by all by being embodied in prices. It is from this conception of the role of markets that Hayek derives his most powerful argument for the impossibility of successful central planning. Even if the planners are wholly disinterested, they will be unable to collect centrally the information—often ephemeral and local, and sometimes embodied in traditional skills and entrepreneurial perceptions—that they would need to allocate resources and coordinate activities effectively. Hayek’s insight here is truly profound. He grasps that the problem that central-planning institutions cannot solve is not (as his mentor, Ludwig von Mises, supposed) merely a problem of calculation but rather a problem of knowledge. Because the planner cannot know relative costs and scarcities, the planned economy will in fact be chaotic and vastly wasteful. This is the real explanation for the poverty of all socialist and command economies. Their poverty does not flow from the cultural traditions.”

—Grey, John. “The Road From Serfdom,” The National Review, Volume 44, Issue 8, April 27, 1992: p32–37, 6p.

Collocates to: activates, agencies, aid, efforts, federal, help, international, response

—Unknown

(1) The knight’s highly polished armor seemed to coruscate in the light of the burning castle.

(2) accept punishment

(2) till; to tend to; work on

(1), (2) “So how does a business leader go about cultivating a winning culture?... Interviews with academics and entrepreneurs yield some universal themes.”

—Hann, Christopher. “The Masters,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 56.

(1), (2) “How do tactically strong leaders learn to develop a strategic mind set? By cultivating three skills: level shifting, pattern recognition, and mental stimulation.”

—Watson, Michael. “How Managers Become Leaders,” Harvard Business Review, June 2012: pg. 68.

(1) “Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.”

—Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (1935–)

(1) “One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.”

—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

—Unknown

Collocates to: necessary, need, place, time

(1) “The wives of domestic violence, for their part, are very, very feisty. Once an argument is started, they don’t back down. They greet negative statements with negative responses—what psychologists call negative reciprocity. Like their husbands, they don’t deescalate an argument if one gets started.”

—Editors. “Inside the Heart of Marital Violence,” Psychology Today, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 1993: pg. 48, 10 p.

Collocates to: anger, crisis, criticism, help, potential, situation, tension, trying

—Elizabeth Drew, American political journalist and author (1935–)

(1) “The actions performed by great souls to spread, promote, and disseminate knowledge to every strata of society is a great service to mankind.”

—Sam Veda, American yoga wear designer (1945–)

(1) “Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority and not from the mass.”

—Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born American international anarchist (1869–1940)

(1) “Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like water of a river.”

—Yajur Veda, one of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas. By some, it is estimated to have been composed between 1000 and 600 BCE.

Collocates to: from, light, rays, seem, sound

(2) put or take passengers aboard a ship or airplane

(3) begin a journey

—Hancock, Bryan and Dianna Ellsworth. “Redesigning Knowledge Work,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2013: pg. 62.

(2) adorn with gimcrack, gimmick, or gimmickry; decorate or improve by adding detail or ornamentation

(3) improve an account or report of an event by adding factious, imaginary, or audacious details to improve or heighten the acceptance of; touch up

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, lecturer, and essayist (1803–1882)

(2) decorate or adorn

(3) decorate with bright colors; display brilliantly

—Negroni, Christine. “Cashing in Before Taking Off,” New York Times, February 27, 2012: pg. 8.

(2) cling to; enfold; hold; hug

—Anthony, Scott D. “The New Corporate Garage,” Harvard Business Review, September 2012: pg. 46.

(1) “For some firms, history can be instrumental in transforming cultures that are no longer useful. Cultural change, we know, can be extremely difficult for people to embrace.”

—Seaman, John T., and George D. Smith. “Your Company’s History as a Leadership Tool,” Harvard Business Review, December 2012: pg. 47.

(2) act in an exaggerated or theatrical manner

—Gerhart, Ann and Philip Rucker. “Her Work Is Her Life Is Her Work,” Washington Post, June 10, 2010.

—Hill, Charles. “Notable & Quotable,” Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2012: pg. A13.

(1) “Still, creating a system that enables employees to achieve great things—as a group—often comes down to the work of a single leader.”

—Hann, Christopher. “The Masters,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 58.

(1) “Moral courage enables people to stand up for a principle rather than stand on the sidelines.”

—Kanter, Rosabeth. “Courage in the C-Suite,” Harvard Business Review, December 2011: pg. 38.

(1) “Employees are motivated by jobs that challenge and enable them to grow and learn, and they are demoralized by those that seem to be monotonous or lead to a dead end.”

—Nohria, Nitin, Boris Groysberg, and Linda-Eling Lee. “Employee Motivation a Powerful New Tool: Honing Your Competitive Edge,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2008, pg. 81.

—Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (1863–1902)

(1) “Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”

—Warren G. Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author (1925–)

(1) “Our analysis, to our knowledge, the first of its kind, found that firms that indiscriminately encourage all their customers to buy more by cross selling are making a costly mistake. A significant subset of cross-buyers are highly unprofitable.”

—Shah, Denish and V. Kumar. “The Dark Side of Cross-Selling,” Harvard Business Review, December 2012: pg. 21.

(1) “Big business can do more to support smaller enterprises in their supply and distribution chains. To encourage small- and medium-size businesses on the basis of their productivity rather than their experience or size would help establish the idea that everyone has a stake in the capitalist system.”

—de Rothschild, Lynn Forester and Adam Posen. “How Capitalism Can Repair its Bruised Image,” Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2013: pg. A17.

Collocates to: designed, development, efforts, growth, investment, polices, students, teachers

—Jack Welch, American chemical engineer, business executive, and author

(1) “We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.”

—Martha Graham, American dancer, teacher, and choreographer (1894–1991)

(2) employ; hire; mesh; to arrange for the services of

(3) reserve; to arrange for the use of

(4) involve; to draw into

(5) to attract and hold; to employ and keep busy; to occupy

(6) to mesh together

—Plato, Classical Greek philosopher and mathematician (427–327 BC)

(1) “In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example—and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”

—Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media mogul (1931–)

(1) “Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”

—Mortimer Adler, American philosopher, educator, and editor (1902–2001)

(1) “Hike to the top floor of Thayer Hall, and you will find Lieutenant Colonel Greg Dardis engaging small groups of firsties in discussions of classical leadership, dissecting such leading-edge thinkers as Morgan McCall and Peter Senge.”

—Hammons, Keith. “Grassroots Leadership: U.S. Military Academy,” Fast Company’s Greatest Hits, Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business, NY: Penguin, 2006: pg. 173.

Collocates to: activities, behavior, conversation, dialogue, likely, students

(1) “Consultation helps engender the support decisions needed to be successfully implemented.”

—Donald Rumsfeld, American politician and businessman (1932–)

(1) “For Mark Leslie, CEO of Veritas Software, it all came down to trust. ‘I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust’...But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.”

—Christopher Hann. “The Masters,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 56.

—Ambrose Bierce, American writer, journalist, and editor (1842–1914)

(1) Leaders enlist followers by appealing to a common vision, hopes, and dreams.

Collocates to: aid, help, military, support, trying, volunteers

—William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (1564–1615)

(2) take as a wife

(1) Be careful how many causes you espouse because you may have trouble remembering which side of an argument you are supposed to be on.

—Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (1917–)

(1) “Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli—love (sex) and death.”

—Unknown

(2) continue something for a time longer than normal; go on; run on; stretch longer than expected

—Censer, Marjorie. “Lockheed Latest Contractor to Announce New Leadership,” Washington Post, A section, April 27, 2012: pg. A10.

—François de la Rochefoucauld, French classical author (1613–1680)

(1) “You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life, you don’t go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.”

—Orson Welles, American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer (1915–1985)

(1) “The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.”

—Andrew Cuomo, American, 56th and current governor of New York (1957–)

(1) “Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”

—Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian (1955–)

(1) “Boardroom discussions often center on just two questions: How can we sustain innovation? And do we have a plan for developing future leaders who can facilitate this goal?”

—Cohn, Jeffery, Jon Katzenbach, and Gus Vlak. “Finding and Grooming Breakthrough Innovators,” Harvard Business Review, December 2008: pg. 64.

(1) “To be a leader, one has to make a difference and facilitate positive change.”

—DuBrin, Andrew. Leadership Research Findings, Practice, and Skills, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998: pg.2.

Collocates to: communications, design, development, learning, order, process

—Hann, Christopher. “The Masters,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 56.

—Levy, Steven. “Power to the People: Computers Once Filled Entire Rooms. Now They Fit in Our Pockets. How a Generation Formed Our Tech Landscape,” Newsweek, Volume 150, Issue 13, September 2007: pg. 46.

—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, and critic (1854–1900)

(1) “Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”

—Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, and actor (1889–1963)

—Leonardi, Paul. “Early Prototypes Can Hurt a Team’s Creativity,” Innovations, Harvard Business Review, December 2011: pg. 28.

(1) “Examples of business leaders who rise to the heights of corporate power only to be brought down by their egos include Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of TYCO, and Carly Fiorina, former head of Hewlett-Packard. As leaders of corporate empires, they focused on what flattered instead of what mattered.”

—Forbes, Steve and John Prevas. Power, Ambition, Glory, NY: Crown Business Press, 2009: pg.7.

(1) “Companies that want to make better use of the data they gather should focus on two things: training workers to increase their data literacy and efficiently incorporate information into decision making, and giving those workers the right tools.”

—Shah, Shvetank, Andrew Horne, and Jamie Capella. “Good Data Won’t Guarantee Good Decisions,” Harvard Business Review, April 2012: pg. 24.

(1) “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

—Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor and educator (1847–1922)

Collocates to: attention, groups, issues, main, on, primary

(2) sign up as one who receives tweet digital messages

—Sam Rayburn, American politician and lawyer (1882–1961)

—The Buddha, a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent on whose teachings Buddhism was founded

(1) “The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”

—Samuel Smiles, Scottish author (1812–1904)

—William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and novelist (1811–1863)

(1) “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

—Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister and novelist (1804–1881)

(1) “The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.”

—Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher (1872–1970)

—Scottish Proverb

(1) “There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”

—T.S. Eliot, American-born English editor, playwright, poet, and critic (1888–1965)

—William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (1564–1516)

—Hillolympics, Alma. “Lillehammer: Your Guide to the Games,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, Section H, May 13, 1994.

(1) In most cases, new workers are left alone to habituate the best they can to the corporate culture.

(2) affect; change; have a bearing on; have an effect on; inspire; shape

(1) The CEO was influenced in a positive way by her work ethic.

(1) The most important person you have to influence is your direct supervisor.

(1) Leaders and managers are much more effective and productive when they apply influence rather than force to accomplish tasks and objectives.

—Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (1469–1527)

(1) “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”

—Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President (1762–1826)

—Nick Clegg, British liberal democratic political leader (1961–)

(1) “Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.”

—Joe Pantoliano, American film and TV actor (1951–)

(1) “The idea is that we do not have to choose between growth now and cutting deficits later. We can simply put in place an integrated policy that does both.”

—Greenhouse, Steve. “Our Economic Pickle,” New York Times, January 13, 2013: pg. 5.

—Rene Cassin, French jurist, law professor, and judge (1887–1976)

—Editors. “Developing Global Awareness and Responsible World Citizenship with Global Learning,” Roeper Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, Jan–Mar 2008: pg. 11–23, 13p.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1749–1832)

—Kliener, Art. “Building the Skills of Insight,” Strategy + Business, http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00154?gko=d4421&cid=TL20130117&utm_campaign=TL20130117, accessed January 17, 2013.

—Isaacson, Walter. “The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs,” Harvard Business Review, April 2012, pg. 95.

—Moran, Gwen. “Mob Money,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 84.

(1) Job seekers should give serious consideration to the move before jumping onboard startups if they have never been in that kind of business environment.

(1) I had to jump through hoops to get you this opportunity.

—Scott Adams, American cartoonist (1957–)

—William Arthur Ward, American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor, and teacher (1921–1994)

—Unknown

Collocates to: assigned, became, coach, facility, former, friend, long time, mentee, relationship, role, served, spiritual, student, teacher

(1) “Big companies face the challenge of how to mobilize vast forces such as employees and new market strategies.”

—Bussey, John. “What Price Salvation,” Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2012: pg. B1.

(1) “It is a new world of management where managers aren’t the only leaders and where part of every manager’s success is based on how well he or she mobilizes leadership contributions from others.”

—Schermerhorn, John, Richard Osborn, Mary UHL-Bien, and James Hunt. Organizational Behavior, 12th Ed., NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012: pg. 4.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet (1803–1882)

—Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner), English musician, actor, and songwriter (1951–)

—Hamari, Monika. “Why Top Young Managers Are in a Nonstop Job Hunt,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2012: pg. 28.

(1) Networking through either one’s strong or weak network remains the most effective tool for the job search.

(1) “Networking is an important strategy for career management, including becoming an influential person. The ability to establish a network and call on support when needed helps a manager or professional exert influence.”

—DuBrin, Andrew. Leadership, Research Findings, Practice, and Skills, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998: pg. 201.

(1) “For three decades, most of Doerr’s best investments were just around the corner from Sand Hill Road, where he could be in close contact with management and leverage his deep network of tech which, Doerr always has acknowledged, is his greatest strength as a Venture Capitalist.”

—Editors. “Cleanup Crew,” Fortune, Volume 156, Issue 11, November 2007: pg. 82.

(2) to arrange or organize surreptitiously so as to achieve a desired effect

—Gannon, Kathy, Adam Goldman, and Lolita C. Baldor. “Top U.S. Delegation to Enlist Pakistan’s Help,” International News, November 11, 2011.

(1) Our goal is to orchestrate a partnership with a Chinese manufacturing firm.

(1) “Digital convergence has created new opportunities for hitherto separate markets and feed the growing desire among customers for integrated solutions and services. This calls for the development of integrated—or at least commonly orchestrated—strategies and actions across business units.”

—Doz, Yves and Mikko Kosonen. “The New Deal at the Top,” Harvard Business Review, June 2007: pg. 100.

Collocates to: ability, arrange, attacks, campaign, help, trying

(2) control; coordinate; fix; manage; take charge

—Napoleon Bonaparte, French general, politician, and emperor (1769–1821)

(1) “It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”

—Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President (1858–1919)

(1) “Organizing is one of the four main functions of management—creating work structures and systems, and arranging resources to accomplish goals and objectives.”

—Schermerhorn, John, Richard Osborn, Mary UHL-Bien, and James Hunt. Organizational Behavior, 12th Ed., NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012, pg. 4.

—Kanter, Rosabeth. “Courage in the C-Suite,” Harvard Business Review, December 2011: pg. 38.

Collocates to: business, firm, former, law, longtime, managing, partner, senior, sexual, trading

—Aristotle, Greek philosopher and polymath (381 BC–321 BC)

(2) make friendly again; win over

(3) acquiescent to

—Charles Caleb Colton, English sportsman and writer (1780–1832)

(1) “To reconcile the official U.S. and Canadian bilateral current-account statistics, the official statistics are first restated to a common basis—that is, they are adjusted for definitional and methodological differences—and then statistical adjustments are applied to reach the reconciled values.”

—Berman, Barbara, Edward Dozier, and Denis Caron. “Reconciliation of the United States-Canadian Current Account, 2010 and 2011,” The Free Library, January 1, 2013.

—Ubben, Jeff. “How to Revive Animal Sprits in CEOs,” Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2012: pg. A15.

—Editors. “Role Models,” Entrepreneur, March 2012: pg. 63.

—Alexandre Dumas, French writer (1802–1870), excerpt from The Count of Monte Cristo

(2) choose one in preference over another; pick out one based on some quality of excellence

(3) limit to certain groups based on some standard

—Kouzes, James and Barry Posner. The Leadership Challenge, 4^th edition, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999: pg. 17.

(2) increase the strength of

—Hirsh, Evan and Kasturi Rangan. “The Grass Isn’t Greener,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2013: pg. 23.

(2) carry or bear the weight for; to keep from falling, slipping, or dropping

(3) give approval; uphold

—Cohn, Jeffery, Jon Katzenbach, and Gus Vlak. “Finding and Grooming Breakthrough Innovators,” Harvard Business Review, December 2008: pg. 64.

—Gyulai, Mike. “ConnecTV Launches National and Local Ad Network That Synchronizes with Television Ads,” Press release, Beck Media & Marketing, January 4, 2013, http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnews/8knews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e37541&u=urn:newsml:reuters. Accessed April 20, 2013.

(1) Unifying a demoralized and self-interested staff is a very difficult management task.

(2) raise to higher moral, social, or cultural level

—Epictetus, Greek sage and stoic philosopher (55 AD–135 AD)

(1) “And it might have been for this reason only, that, when I again uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image in the pool, there grew in my mind a strange fancy—a fancy so ridiculous, indeed, that I but mention it to show the vivid force of the sensations which oppressed me.”

—Edgar Allen Poe, American author, poet, editor, and literary critic (1809–1849), excerpt from The Fall of the House of Usher

(2) confirm or substantiate; prove to be true by demonstration, evidence, or testimony

(3) check or confirm the accuracy of

—Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic (1812–1870), excerpt from Great Expectations

—Forbes, Steve and John Prevas. Power, Ambition, Glory, NY: Crown Business Press, 2009: pg. 7.

(1) “Facebook and Google are vying to become the primary gateway to the Internet. Google has long served as a destination to find websites and information; Facebook, to share gossip and photos with friends. But those distinctions are increasingly blurring, and billions in advertising dollars are at stake.”

—Rusli, Evelyn and Amir Efrati. “Facebook on Collision Course with Google,” Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2013: pg. A1.

(2) give vigor and animation to; make vital; provide life to

—Jack London, American author, journalist, and social activist (1876–1916), excerpt from Martin Eden

—Hotz, Robert Lee. “Mars Rover Ready to Dig in,” Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2013: pg. B4.

(2) to approach the end

—Stephen Crane, American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist (1871–1900), excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage

(1) “So the one went off with one group of scholars, and the other with another. In a little while, the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school, they had it all to themselves. Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking.”

—Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1832–1910), excerpt from Tom Sawyer

—Wolff, Alexander. “Thrills and Spills,” Sports Illustrated, Volume 84, Issue 12, 1996: pg. 36.

(1) “For Cocky had a way with him, and ways and ways. He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent. When Cocky, balanced on one leg, the other leg in the air as the foot of it held the scruff of Michael’s neck, leaned to Michael’s ear and wheedled, Michael could only lay down silkily the bristly hair-waves of his neck, and with silly half-idiotic eyes of bliss agree to whatever was Cocky’s will or whimsy so delivered.”

—Jack London, American author, journalist, and social activist (1876–1916), excerpt from Michael, Brother of Jerry

—Gorman, Siobhan and Adam Entous. “Bureaucratic Battle Blunted Libya Attack,” Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2012: pg. A1.

—Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author (1934–1996)

—Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic (1812–1870), excerpt from Barnaby Rudge—A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

(2) to produce or bear

(3) give up to another; to submit, surrender

(4) to give way to physical force

(5) to give up willingly a right, possession, or privilege

—Herman Melville, American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet (1919–1891), excerpt from Moby Dick

(1) “You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it. I am not particularly speaking of such a case as you have supposed about Mr. Bingley. We may as well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs before we discuss the discretion of his behavior thereupon. But in general and ordinary cases between friend and friend, where one of them is desired by the other to change a resolution of no very great moment, should you think ill of that person for complying with the desire, without waiting to be argued into it?”

—Jane Austen, English novelist (1775–1817), excerpt from Pride and Prejudice

(1) “A troublesome crow seated herself on the back of a Sheep. The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, ‘If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your desserts from his sharp teeth.’ To this the crow replied, ‘I despise the weak and yield to the strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.’”

—Aesop, a fabulist or story-teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables (620–560 BC), excerpt from The Crow and the Sheep