Quotes About Management

Everywhere there is much complaining about too few leaders. We have too few because most institutions are structured so that only a few—only one at the time—can emerge.

Throughout this chapter I take the cue from this definition—that the role of trustees is to stand outside the active program of the institution and to manage. What they delegate to the inside operating executives is administration

Speaking to those in business who presume to manage, it is important that this principle be embraced as an ethic and not simply as a "device" to achieve harmony or increase productivity or reduce turnover. Some popular procedures, such as participation or work enlargement or profit sharing, may be manipulative devices if they do not flow naturally out of a comprehensive ethic.

Typically, today, somebody in top management meets with a consultant, reads a book, gets excited about a new idea, and begins to talk about it.

W. Edwards Deming—that arguably, over 90 percent of problems are due to bad systems, not bad people. However, Greenleaf correctly points out that people are the programmers.

The answer to this question is that trustees need a new view of people at their best in institutional roles. That view can be simply stated: No person is complete; no one is to be entrusted with all. Completeness is to be found only in the complementary talents of several who relate as equals. This flouts one of the time-honored assumptions—almost an axiom—of administrative lore: "You cannot manage by committee! Delegation of authority must be made to an individual.

Some basic principles will need to be explicitly accepted, such as that no one, absolutely no one, is to be entrusted with the operational use of power without the close oversight of fully functioning trustees.

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

Performance management systems that promote individualistic behaviors seem to be one of the primary causes of sparse, disconnected networks. Hierarchy, too, often has a marked impact on who has access to whom.

A genius temperament should be handled with care.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: three million people, civilian and military, with a budget, the last year I was there, of over $700 billion.

Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale

I-don't-wants hold the key to your success," rich dad would say. Because I, too, do not want to fix toilets, I shop hard for a property manager who does fix toilets.

they often do not have the mental and emotional capacity to handle the sudden abundance of money, so the money overflows and runs away.

If you take on debt personally, make sure it's small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

Una persona inteligente contrata a gente más inteligente que ella.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

Want to grow rich? Concentrate your efforts on buying income-producing assets—when you truly understand what an asset is. Keep liabilities and expenses low. You'll deepen your asset column.

This was a simple example of how money is invented, created, and protected using financial intelligence.

The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

mind management is the essence of life management.

These people never realize that mind management is the essence of life management.