Quotes About Management

As a manager, you worry about any different issue you have in your squad.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

My failed corporate career became the fodder for the 'Dilbert' comic. Once it became clear I would not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.

Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.

Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies.

The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him.

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.