Quotes About Management

established companies need to figure out how to accomplish what Scott Cook did in 1983, but on an industrial scale and with an established cohort of managers steeped in traditional management culture.

It is unfair to criticize these managers for their response; the criticism should be aimed at senior executives who failed to design a supportive system in which to operate and innovate.

As startups grow, entrepreneurs can build organizations that learn how to balance the needs of existing customers with the challenges of finding new customers to serve, managing existing lines of business, and exploring new business models—all at the same time. And,

But large inventories are expensive because they have to be transported, stored, and tracked.

In effect, the huge productivity increases made possible by modern management and technology have created more productive capacity than firms know what to do with.

Lean production solves the problem of stockouts with a technique called pull.

However, all companies engage in all four phases of work all the time.

As an engineer and later as a manager, I was accustomed to measuring progress by making sure our work proceeded according to plan, was high quality, and cost about what we had projected.

The problem for startups and large companies alike is that employees often follow the products they develop as they move from phase to phase. A common practice is for the inventor of a new product or feature to manage the subsequent resources, team, or division that ultimately commercializes it. As a result, strong creative managers wind up getting stuck working on the growth and optimization of products rather than creating new ones.

En los negocios, una empresa Lean es la eficiencia duradera en acción. El revolucionario método Lean Startup de Eric Ries convertirá su nueva idea de negocio en un resultado final exitoso y duradero. Encontrará innovadoras estrategias y los pasos necesarios para crear y gestionar su propia startup mientras aprende de éxitos y fracasos reales de los demás. Este libro es una lectura obligatoria para emprendedores que se sientan preparados para empezar algo genial.»

managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,

Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This

if management is the problem, chaos is the answer.

I knew that as the company grew, we would need additional processes and systems designed to coordinate the company's operations at each larger size. And yet I had also seen many startups become ossified and bureaucratic out of a misplaced desire to become "professional.

La creación de una startup es un ejercicio de creación de una institución; por lo tanto, requiere management.

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop." The

we could reduce the failure rate by doing fewer projects of higher quality. Others believe that certain people have an innate gift of knowing the right thing to build. If we can find enough of these visionaries and virtuosos, our problems will be solved. These "solutions" were once considered state of the art in the nineteenth century, too, before people knew about modern management.

book Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones recount

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop.

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

your money. Don't expect your inspections to eliminate all future

inventory-management systems, such as retailers, tend to be the developers of new approaches to inventory management. In contrast, manufacturers of inventory-management systems and equipment tend to develop improvements to the

Effective delegation is the single most powerful way for you to build trust in your employees' abilities.

manager's bill of rights," those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to feedback Keep their agreements Manage their own growth Are "Good Company Citizens