Quotes About Management

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' was the only time I've been directed properly.

A lot of planning goes into ensuring that every project becomes a super hit.

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who knows why will always be his boss.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Imagine an inverted U-curve: as data initially becomes more available, decision accuracy improves; but beyond an inflection point of increasing information, the amount of data diminishes management's capacity to process the information and thus its ability to reach optimal decisions.20

Think of the G3 as the central brain trust of a talent-first organization. (You might want to keep the general counsel or chief risk officer close on big decisions if that suits your business, but it's the ongoing CEO-CFO-CHRO linkage that's crucial.) Effectively deployed, the G3 is the mechanism that will create the future of your organization. It can be the multiplier of your capacity, time, and capability, as illustrated in the following example.

The three processes—people, strategy, and operations— remain the building blocks and heart of good execution.

Recent research suggests that "quality of management" is becoming an increasingly important factor in investor decisions. This may be because investors believe that a company that has a strong and predictable leadership pipeline is more likely to be able to generate sustained earnings growth. For this reason, a company's "leadership brand" can be a very valuable asset in today's investment community.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards.

nip most of them in the bud

emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing the machines rather than how to run the machines.

culpar a otros —los inmigrantes y los malos acuerdos comerciales— de nuestros apuros, y especialmente los de quienes sufren a causa de la desindustrialización, la culpa la tenemos nosotros: podríamos haber gestionado mejor la globalización y el proceso de cambio tecnológico, de manera que al perder su empleo la mayoría de los individuos obtuviera uno nuevo en otro frente.

nuestros fracasos económicos: al gestionar adecuadamente la transición de una economía industrial a otra de servicios, al controlar el sector financiero, al manejar como es debido la globalización y sus consecuencias y, lo más importante, al responder a la desigualdad creciente. Parece que evolucionamos de manera resuelta hacia una economía y una democracia del 1 por ciento, por el 1 por ciento y para el 1 por ciento.

Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run.

In his first year as president he received 1,881 letters, not including internal correspondence from his cabinet, and sent out 677 letters of his own. This

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

This determination to manage—to cope—to do as much unassisted as possible—is the Widow's prerogative. You might argue that it's a sign of her wish to appear to be—which is not the same as being—self-sufficient; or you might argue that it is a symptom of her derangement. But then, in the early minutes/hours/days of Widowhood—what is not, if examined closely, a symptom of derangement?