Management Quotes - Page 2

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

Marcus Buckingham

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

Barbara Marciniak

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Marcus Buckingham

Anything plus management amounts to success

G.S. Alag

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

Toba Beta

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is?

That's why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness."And it was true, she realized. She didn't run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn't give orders just to make herself feel important. Well, at least she wouldn't anymore. No. The day before, she hadn't missed that part of her job at all. She had missed the baking. She had missed creating something for others to enjoy.And, oh, how she wanted to go back to work!

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

Andrew S. Grove

Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

Andrew S. Grove

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness.

Andrew S. Grove

Don't differentiate without a difference.

Andrew S. Grove

To unleash your full potential recognise and acknowledge the greatness in others.

To unleash your potential acknowledge the greatness in others

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Sumantra Ghoshal

The truly effective managers we've observed are purposeful, trust in their own judgement, and adopt long-term, big-picture views to fulfill personal goals that tally with those of the organization as a whole. They break out of their perceived boxes, take control of their jobs, ...

Sumantra Ghoshal

Start with the end in mind.

Stephen R. Covey

What's measured improves

Peter F Drucker

Employers are like horses — they require management.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F Drucker

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Marcus Buckingham

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Henry Mintzberg

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

Michael Crichton

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

Mœbius

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter F Drucker

Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Be a worthy company and clients will come.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Robin S. Sharma

Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.

Jeffrey K. Liker

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Marcus Buckingham

people who says they are running out of time, I think they don't know how to manage tasks/work and to prioritize it.

kurbhatt

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

Sukant Ratnakar

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

Heather Simmons

Any change holds an opportunity.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Patrick O'Brian

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

Dean M. Schroeder

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Michael Harrington

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

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