Quotes About Management

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

In the New Testament, Jesus talks more about stewardship and finances and management of your life than anything else outside the love of God.

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

He who says organization, says oligarchy

Who says organisation, says oligarchy.

Removing one task can free up a couple of minutes of free time, every day... which turns into hours or days every year. Time

Management is, in the end, the most creative of all the arts—for its medium is human talent itself.

From baby steps the Pats management hopes to be jogging later in the 2013-2014 season. That's when the Gillette system starts getting deeply contextual. They are gathering data on the eating and drinking habits of participating fans. They know when a season ticket holder is attending and what that customer's buying habits are during a game, so they can start to predict who will be ordering what at a particular moment in every game.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

No one manages until he or she has "walked in the shoes" of those being managed.

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

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

Twenty percent of any given group of salesmen will always produce 80 percent of the sales.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls...hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.

The trick to developing a new computer or program, then, is not to hire a lot of smart people but to hire a few very smart people. This rule lies at the heart of most successful ventures in the personal computer industry.

once you put a man in charge of something, you didn't ride him while he did the task.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

assessing risk factors and allowing for contingencies. But how often do they?

But anger can be dangerous and have unintended consequences.

It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.