Management Quotes - Page 4

Manager! Have brain - use it!

Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.

Susan C. Foster

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

Miya Yamanouchi

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

Mahyar Mottahed

Although some organizations today may survive and prosper because they have intu- itive geniuses managing them, most are not so fortunate. Most organizations can benefit from strategic management, which is based upon integrating intuition and analysis in decision making. Choosing an intuitive or analytic approach to decision making is not an either–or proposition. Managers at all levels in an organization inject their intuition and judgment into strategic-management analyses. Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking complement each other. Operating from the I’ve-already-made-up-my-mind-don’t-bother-me-with-the-facts mode is not management by intuition; it is management by ignorance. Drucker says, “I believe in intuition only if you discipline it. ‘Hunch’ artists, who make a diagnosis but don’t check it out with the facts, are the ones in medicine who kill people, and in management kill businesses.

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

Kent Alan Robinson

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

Kent Alan Robinson

If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.

Kent Alan Robinson

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Exceptional customer service proactively manages your brand and reactively can turn upset customers into raving fans based on how you handled their complaint.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

Michael E. Gerber

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

I don't know, where i am goingBut i know, i am on my wayI don't know, what i am doingBut i know, it is rightI don't know , what i seeBut i know, it is beautifulI don't know, what i hearBut i know, it is sweetI don't know, who i amBut i know, i am nothing

Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)

Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Alan G. Robinson

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Jay Samit

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Jay Samit

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Jay Samit

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Jay Samit

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Jay Samit

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Jay Samit

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Jay Samit

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Jay Samit

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Jay Samit

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Jay Samit

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Jay Samit

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Jay Samit

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

Jay Samit

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Jay Samit

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Jay Samit

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Jay Samit

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Jay Samit

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Jay Samit

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Jay Samit

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Jay Samit

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Jay Samit

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Jay Samit

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