Quotes About Management

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.