Quotes About Management

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

Ive worked for crazy people, and I decided I want to keep my staff and the people growing. Its more exciting for them and they do a better job.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.

As I see it, if the production of a factory is expanding, and workers are satisfied, it's OK for there to be a disparity. The best paid should be about three times more than the worst paid.

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

There will always be frictions when you have a foreign worker population or immigrant population in the country, and we have to manage that, and that requires good behaviour and adjustment both on the part of the foreign workers and the immigrants as well as on the part of the Singaporeans.

The most important aspect of my signing with the WFL was not to demean or undermine the National Football League, but rather to make professional football a form of employment where management recognizes its workers as individuals capable of communicating on an intelligent level.

Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.