Quotes About Management

Under the aegis of wildlife management, the oxymoron that is now a fact of life for most North American creatures, spins unbounded tinkering, with further tinkering made necessary by past tinkering, effects of causes, effects of effects—a "cascade of consequences" precipitated by human intervention, well intended though it may be.

work any better to be overmanaging with a sick child than with a well child. Advances

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Having clear decision rules saves heartburn later.

In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

more space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.

Não existe vantagem alguma em fazer as coisas do dia para a noite, porque para fazer direito precisamos de planejamento.

In government we have leaders who are perceived by and large as unable to do what they are supposed to do, to lead. In business we have leaders who are perceived by and large as able to do what they are supposed to do, to lead, but who nevertheless do so in ways that disappoint and dishearten.

But men ought to be able to manage their own affairs," I said. "After all most of them don't seem to mind speaking frankly and making people unhappy.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

The Prime Minister was not the only person unconcerned with odds and ends of this kind. When a German official, foreseeing the change to a long war of attrition, presented Moltke with a memorandum on the need for an Economic General Staff, Moltke replied, "Don't bother me with economics—I am busy conducting a war.

You don't keep a dog and bark yourself.