Quotes About Management

The more the positional layers in the organization, the less the true working picture goes clear up to its owner.

The opposite of a leader is a boss

When a good employee quits the job, the bad things happen to that particular organization not necessarily immediately but definitely; if bad management guys leave their topmost position, good results start pouring in the same company often after some time.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

The man fit to command may be compared with the architect, who adjusts the plan and directs its execution. His skill must extend to every part of the work; that of his workmen is limited by their respective tasks.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

FWAs boost productivity. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom found that employees who telecommute are 13.5 percent more productive than employees who go into the office.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

3. INVEST INTELLIGENTLY

Leaders are particularly prone to loneliness, in no small part because real friendships at work are difficult or impossible with people under one's authority and supervision.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The qualities involved with having to manage are exactly the same as it would be for a men's team. We are talking about human beings.

I think the football world needs to wake up and recognize that women, while the game is played by a different gender, it is exactly the same sport and the qualities involved with having to manage that is exactly the same then it would be for a men's team.

Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Every governor knows better how to manage and provide for quality health care in their respective states than does one-size-fits-all at the federal government level.

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Everything depends on the club more than the player: the quantities, the paperwork.