Quotes About Management

It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it.

I'm good at task management in a stressful environment.

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

Messi never wants to be subbed off, but it's my task to take care of him.

I'm a task master.

Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.

I prioritize people over tasks.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.

I find being a manager really challenging. For instance, I don't enjoy some of the administrative tasks that go along with hiring and firing.

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

You need always to balance your tasks at the racetrack and at the factory. Still the factory is important where we are developing the car, preparing the cars.

I taught my executive team how to argue.