Quotes About Management

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money ("worldly wealth") determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings ("true riches").

This much being said, don't get trapped into microallocating people's time. Allocating personnel-months is sufficient for most projects of any strategic significance.

Just because the resources are there doesn't mean that they should be spent.

extracted resources from cash-generating but low-growth arenas such

resources are directed by a governance mechanism that is separate from any given business unit.

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

The important point is that the competitive life of an asset may be different (and usually shorter) than its accounting life.

maintaining an organizational system that can maintain the complementarity between the forces for innovation and those for stability.

aggressively and frequently change the management team, a pattern found by consultancy Accenture.2

Softley's first album, Songs for Swingin' Survivors (Columbia), produced by Donovan's management team of Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens, is one of the three great solo folk albums released in Britain in 1965, alongside Bert Jansch's second, It Don't Bother Me, and John Renbourn.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.

The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. Their job is to keep the general from being bothered by rude strangers while he is managing the battle. Sometimes they succeed.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.' Do

Won't discuss bookkeeping this firm used. Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.

We maybe should ask him about that?" Suit said. "Sooner or later," Jesse said. "First, you want to get all your ducks in a row?" "I'd settle for getting them herded into the same area," Jesse said.

Ollie do any of his own work?" "Mostly he runs things.

How to Manage Performance

As we learned to our horror at the turn of the twentieth century in the Philippines, as well as in the 1960s in Vietnam, and again in the last decade in Iraq, to invade is to govern. Once you decide to send in ground forces in significant numbers, it becomes your job to administer the territory you've just conquered—or to identify someone immediately who can.