Quotes About Management

Project leaders need to focus on value in several ways: value determination (with product owners), value prioritization (backlog management), and value creation (iterative development).

Newtonian versus quantum, predictability versus flexibility, optimization versus adaptation, efficiency versus innovation—all these dichotomies reflect a fundamentally different way of making sense about the world and how to manage effectively within it.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.

Agile organizations must adhere to the same values as agile teams: • Delivering value over meeting constraints • Leading the team over managing tasks • Adapting to change over conforming to plans Executives and managers need to lead their organizations in living these values and taking actions based on them—and one of the critical areas on which they need to take action is measuring performance in ways that encourage their organizations to embrace agility.

Even if your company is experiencing good times now, the business will eventually be at risk if the leadership culture is not strong or aligned.

As a leader and a manager, how valuable would it be to bring more positive energy and passion to the workplace?

Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy

The skillful management of energy, individually and organizationally, makes possible something that we call full engagement. To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.

We focused instead on helping them to manage their energy more effectively in the service of whatever mission they were on.

Positive energy rituals—highly specific routines for managing energy—are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance.

Gallup found that the key drivers of productivity for employees include whether they feel cared for by a supervisor or someone at work; whether they have received recognition or praise during the past seven days; and whether someone at work regularly encourages their development. Put another way, the ability to communicate consistently positive energy lies at the heart of effective management.

business life. Believe it or not, they're more important to your future than the president of your company. This bit of knowledge has always seemed obvious, yet many new managers spend almost all their time planning their upward communication and give only a passing glance to the people who really control their future.

Leaders can also set aside matters of personality and make decisions based on fact.

Almost without exception, managers say the most important ingredients in hiring a new employee are experience, qualifications, and education. They rarely come up with the missing ingredient: attitude. You can hire an employee with all the experience, education, and qualifications you could hope for, but if the person has a bad attitude, you have just hired a problem employee. On the other hand, you can hire a person with less experience, education, and

Management guru Peter Drucker calls it "risk which is coincident with the commitment of present resources to future expectations.

Broadly speaking, the decision-making process is as follows: (1) Decide what type of participant you're going to be, (2) select a method of analysis, (3) develop rules, (4) establish controls, and (5) formulate a plan.

Betting and gambling are suitable for discrete events but not for continuous processes. If you introduce the behavioral characteristics of betting or gambling into a continuous process, you are leaving yourself open to enormous losses.

gambling creates risk while investing/speculating assumes and manages risk that already exists.

The next step in decision making is establishing controls, i.e., the exit criteria that will take you out of the market either at a profit or loss.

Drucker's observation means that the controls should be consistent with the strategy, not that they should be selected after the strategy is implemented.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.