Quotes About Management

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

Jennie quickly began to use language to mislead us. Or to manage a situation more to her liking.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion

the maxim, 'If you want a thing done safely, do not do it yourself!

It's frightening, you know, how soon money goes if you're not clever about it.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

suppose a murderer carries a torso away from the scene of the crime. What does he do with the leftover bones and internal organs once he's stripped off the skin? Actually I must confess that it only just occurred to me now that this sort of problem—the efficient management of crime-related waste products—might be called 'criminal economics.

A movie director is like a front-line commanding officer. He needs a thorough knowledge of every branch of the service, and if he doesn't command each division, he cannot command the whole.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Success in business inflates the egos of top management.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

While leadership is important, just as important is how leadership is communicated. On the one hand, you can command good performance from someone in exchange for not firing them. On the other hand, you might be able to ignite the desire in a person to perform well by tuning in to their state of mind.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."  - Dr. Stephen Covey

Life is pain management and a slow march towards death, but here's to having fun while we're marching!

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.

you'll hate it. Not only because of the merger. The old office you and I knew has succumbed to management blight: meetings, mission statements, jargon, targets, obsession with process, the mania for measurement. Everything that can be counted, is; which, almost by definition, is what doesn't matter. Nothing of value can be measured, so it's not valued.

But the best managers expect their people to make mistakes, and instead of replacing staff constantly, they recognize that it is more efficient to teach people how to cope with their failures and learn from their

The bigger your job, the more negative evaluations you must hand out. And the more criticism you must be willing to absorb.

too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.