Quotes About Management

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.