Quotes About Management

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

Brooke's deputy, General Sir John Kennedy, observed of Churchill: "He is difficult enough when things are going badly, more difficult when nothing is happening, and quite unmanageable when all is going well.

To his brother Edgar he confided, "I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to be turned over to someone else.

I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to be turned over to someone else.

The battle," Rommel famously observed, "is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.

Montgomery professed to spend one-third of his day "making sure I'm not sacked" and another third inspiriting the troops, which "leaves one-third of my time to defeat the enemy.

The latter could be attributed to the two owners of the company, who were firm believers in management by harassment, or the "seagull system" of management (if something went wrong, the owners would fly in, make a lot of noise, and dump all over everyone!).

They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane.

What I think it should have done was realize that preparing customers for transitions is just like getting them through the new product adoption process, except in reverse.

knights and no outside-the-industry saviors. Interestingly, and also consistent with the findings of other researchers over the years, the most senior leaders generally kept a low profile.

So even in firms that embrace change and appear to manage it well, there are elements of tremendous stability in their businesses.

They reallocate resources flexibly and on an ongoing basis, rather than going through sudden divestitures or restructurings.

The answer is not to suppress our desires, as a Christian ascetic would recommend, for that leads to a condition of vegetation rather than life, but rather the prudent management of our desires, for example by eliminating whatever in them is chimerical.

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

We spend time as investors thinking about the ability to accelerate or sustain elevated growth, as well as working with management teams to try and minimize the execution risk associated with that growth.

S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published

Coca-Cola's former president William Robinson, who in 1959 told an audience at Fordham Law School that executives should not put stockholders first. They should "balance the interests of the stockholder, the community, the customer, and the employee.

William H. Davis, then director of the government's Office of Economic Stabilization, estimated that industry was so profitable it could raise wages as much as 40 to 50 percent without raising prices. President Harry S. Truman, who felt he had enough on his plate without getting involved in management-labor disputes, repudiated Davis's calculation and announced Davis was out of a job.

There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.