Management
Definition: The process of dealing with or controlling things or people.
Number of Quotes: 59
The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization
that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
Scott Adams
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions
on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Gianni Agnelli
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m.
to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Fred Allen
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.
Warren Bennis
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have
unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.
Warren Bennis
The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.
Gerard M. Blair
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace.
And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public
as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Warren Buffett
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My
advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
H. S. M. Burns
I praise loudly, I blame softly.
Catherine
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to
understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
Michael Dell
If you limit a company by its structure or by the people in the company, you will, by definition, limit the full potential of
that business. It sounds basic, but a lot of companies don't follow the idea that the structure should be last and not first.
Michael Dell
People are the lifeblood of any airline, and it is the people of BA who will deliver its future success.
Rod Eddington
I realised that if you want to change something, nine times out of ten you can change it more effectively from within.
Niall FitzGerald
At office-managerial level ... you do not read more than the first two sentences of any given
report. You believe that anything which cannot be put into two sentences is not worth attending to.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative
official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Mary Parker Follett
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for
achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Galbraith
The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Bill Gates
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the
charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.
Harold Geneen
It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing
the degree and level of work that he should be doing and, at the same time, have a clean desk.
Harold Geneen
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a
clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold Geneen
The grab for a quick killing is the mark of the worst kind of leadership, for it places immediate
profit above the long-term interest of the organization and can lead ultimately only to disaster.
Crawford H. Greenewalt
You can't treat your people like an expense item.
Andrew Grove
Without an appropriate vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of
confusing, incompatible and time-consuming projects that go in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.
Bob Guccione
The real impediment to producing a higher-quality product more efficiently isn't the workers, union or nonunion, it's management.
Kenneth Iverson
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
Herb Kelleher
Quality is not a program that can be simply imposed on an operation; instead it is
a way of operating that permeates a business and the thinking of its employees.
Theodore B. Kinni
The difference between a leader and a boss is the difference between good and bad management.
Joe Klock Sr.
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
Geraldine Laybourne
Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.
Konosuke Matsushita
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving
up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
Melissa Mayer
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must
learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.
Mark McCormack
I try to keep in touch with the details - you can't keep in touch with them all, but you've got to have a feel for what's going on.
Rupert Murdoch
Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent
MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
Narayana Murthy
Generally, large companies are so inwardly directed that staff memorandums about growing bureaucracy get more attention than the dwindling competitive
advantage of being big in the first place. David, who has a life, needn't use a slingshot. Goliath, who doesn't, is too busy reading office memos.
Nicholas Negroponte
Show me a man who enjoys firing people and I'll show you a charlatan or sadist.
Tony O'Reilly
A chairman who never wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.
David Ogilvy
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
Kenichi Ohmae
We have a technique at Hewlett-Packard for helping managers and supervisors know their
people and understand the work their people are doing ... Management by Walking About.
David Packard
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Tom Peters
You have a responsibility to shape the vision of a company, and you know whatever
process you choose will determine ultimately the well-being of the organization.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no
more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
T. Boone Pickens
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and
don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan
Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.
Wess Roberts
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. ... The leader works
in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
Of all business activities, 99% are routine ... The entire 100% can be handled by managing the 1% of exceptions.
Alfred P. Sloan
The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high
social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.
Alan Sugar
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their
weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Robert Townsend
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
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management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads
into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Robert Townsend
Our philosophy is that management's role is simply to get the right people in the right places to
do a job, and to encourage them to use their own inventiveness to accomplish the task at hand.
Sam Walton
I want to begin with what I think is the most important factor: our respect for the
individual. This is a simple concept, but in IBM it occupies a major portion of management time.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
I don't like the word empowerment. I think the word we're really talking about is involvement ... We want everyone to have a say.
Jack Welch
Insecure managers create complexity.
Jack Welch
Not everyone is capable of being a CEO. It means you don't get to pal around with all your employees and that you
leave the sorority/fraternity approach to life behind, and you take on a role that is, in some respects, lonely.
Ann Winblad
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good.
But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
Oprah Winfrey
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