Quotes About Management

I keep a really tight schedule.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

The ivory tower analogy is no joke – is it any coincidence that top management is often on the top floor? That's physically about as far away from customers as you can get.

DID YOU KNOW!?! That all of human history can be described entirely in terms of the interaction between contractors and middle-level management. It's all true It's impossible to lie in any language and equally impossible to tell the truth.

This matters because top leadership roles tend to be more about potential for the next level of responsibility than management of the current level of responsibility,

Successful people create systems so that essential tasks always get done.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

One of the great paradoxes of management is that the people who pursue leadership positions most ardently are often the wrong people for the job. They're motivated by the prestige the role conveys rather than a desire to promote the goals and values of the organization.

What's really worried me over the years is not our stock price, but that we might someday fail to take care of our customers, or that our managers might fail to motivate and take care of our associates. I also was worried that we might lose the team concept, or fail to keep the family concept viable and realistic and meaningful to our folks as we grow. Those challenges are more real than somebody's theory that we're headed down the wrong path. As

Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

1st 90 days, 1st 365 days, & in the 5th year; an entrepreneur needs to have a very tight grip from day 1 on what all must be done to build a start-up

handling my ash is verboten right now.

By treating his staff as extended family, he got their undying commitment and loyalty—a management model common in Italian family-run enterprises.

You're lucky she's like that. Most influencer parents are the ones steering the plane. Total Momagers.

Develop more productivity with an increase in leadership skills.

accept what you've already learned: that your disability will come and go and you'll never control it completely. Educate yourself about it, become an expert manager, and use treatment whenever you think it's necessary and without regard to your yearnings to be normal. Fight the shame that comes with being ill by sharing as much with others as you think is appropriate according to your own standards of privacy, not the culture's stigma.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.