Quotes About Management

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Leadership is about coping with change

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.