Quotes About Management

Polarities to manage are sets of opposites that can't function well independently. Because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent, you cannot choose one as a "solution" and neglect the other. The objective of the Polarity Management perspective is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers.

Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there.

I feel I did a good job at West Brom. It was cut short abruptly, which is something historically that West Brom have done - as you've recently seen with Darren Moore.

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command.