Quotes About Management

I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I know where everything is.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.

The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.

The head coach makes the decision about what's best for the team.

I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not as much as I should have.

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.

Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

When you face the shareholders, then you can feel the heat is on you. For 20 years I got to answer to my shareholders. It's not easy.

Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating.

I do not run my band like The Eagles, for sure. I've never had to be heavy handed.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.