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Quotes About Management

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.
~ Anthony Weston
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nosotros siempre hemos tenido necesidad de un jefe, todavía hoy necesitamos un jefe.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.
~ Antony Beevor
A company, which asks the job-seeking candidates to give it in writing a road-map as how they are going to make it grow as a condition or clause for their hiring, is most likely making a great financial loss and most probably its boss is seriously contemplating only to close down that particular business on gross.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who says his expertise lies in selling only a particular product, but for other products someone else of their team has the capability to makes sales; is actually playing office politics in spite of the management considering him consistently the star performer in the organisation.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman wants to rule like a queen by involving herself in all activities of the house; and a man who fools oneself says often that she is multitasking to manage everything well.
~ Anuj Somany
An organisation is like a tree. Its growth is measured by the height it attains and the width it covers. It is largely considered GREEN because of its leaves. Its fruits (financial results) depend solely on its roots (leaders). If its branch (head) is functionally weak, the same part will always complain of being laden with too many leaves (employees) but the strong will grow more.
~ Anuj Somany
An owner of the private sector organization who is bad to good staffs can not be good as well to the bad natured employees kept as functional head
~ Anuj Somany
Bigger the liar the person is , higher the chance that the private sector employer will hire him/her for the senior most position of the organization.
~ Anuj Somany
Employees normally don't take any initiative in the private organization because it has been seen often that one who undertakes it hardly gets its result benefit ,but somebody else is given knowingly by the management all its credit, promotion and incentive.
~ Anuj Somany
Junior or middle cadre employees should never complain, either orally or in written form, about their irrational & illogical senior unless and until it is acceptable to see the private company's boss further elevate him to even more higher position with bigger power than ever before. The owner has selected that senior guy for that job merely to make others work under undue pressure and unnecessary stress situation only.
~ Anuj Somany
Machines can't be tempered but the top men controlling all operation can easily be influenced to favour anyone.
~ Anuj Somany
Office politics thrives at every level in the organization mainly because of those sycophant employees who wish to rise high by spreading lies through always sweet talk to the management and board.
~ Anuj Somany
Only in motivational story, the timber merchant boss will give the woodcutter the relaxing and learning time to sharpen his axe and increase the productivity; but in cruel business world, the boss will screw him up if the number of cutting trees decreases. Be practical not theoretical.
~ Anuj Somany
Organizations in the private sector go bankrupt , but often not its owner.
~ Anuj Somany
The character of a head or an authority is just the common quality as attitudinal characteristics found in the majority of the people working under his or her belt for a considerable time period.
~ Anuj Somany
The company's business has never doomed because of ground force or even of middle cadre people but because of top brass only.
~ Anuj Somany
The first rule to fuel and flourish the slavery at the workplace is to put the fool at the senior most post to make him enjoy life full and place the talents from school at his subordinates position and let him harass and humiliate them by making them work as asses and mules.
~ Anuj Somany