Quotes About Management

If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

You can't just let nature run wild.

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

When a company gets bigger, when it begins to bring on employees, it naturally goes through this tendency of wanting to control, of wanting to build process - essentially to say not every one of our customers or employees has great judgment.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Governments have a tendency to screw up currencies.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

I've been linked with lots of clubs but that's what tends to happen if you stay in the same job for five years. It means you have brought a level of success.

I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the greatest value for shareholders, stakeholders, and society at large.