Quotes About Management

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money it's my time.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of "communityship.

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

If your team members can run a home, raise a family, and organize their lives, they are fully equipped to run a multimillion-dollar business.

Marc was in charge of the Wolverton tube plant colony and the tilapia tank, which would produce fresh food to supplement the packaged stuff they were bringing.

It's staring into one of those green screens, doing corporate budgets, that I notice how high salaries rise in marketing. Also, they spend hundreds of thousands on trade shows each year, and my product-manager girlfriend informs me that nobody pays attention to the budgets. So in the company library, I read a bunch of trade magazines and essentially retype what they said needs to happen into a proposal for managing that budget. Poof, I'm a marketeer.

Until Oklahoma! they were, despite the money he made, always very hand-to-mouth, a situation my mother managed with great agility, a nose for bargains, and a flair for double-entry bookkeeping. I used to brag about that last one, having no idea what it meant.

Ne pas improviser ce que vous ne pouvez pas gérer

more information on emotional intelligence, I highly recommend Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Robbins.

There was never a better illustration of the validity of the Enlightenment dream – that order can emerge where nobody is in charge. The genome, now sequenced, stands as emphatic evidence that there can be order and complexity without any management.

what really works inside a big firm is division of labour: you do what you're good at, I'll do what I'm good at, and we'll coordinate our actions. That is what actually happens in practice inside most companies, and good management means good coordination. The employees specialise and exchange, just like participants in a market, or citizens in a city.

No, what really works inside a big firm is division of labour: you do what you're good at, I'll do what I'm good at, and we'll coordinate our actions. That is what actually happens in practice inside most companies, and good management means good coordination. The employees specialise and exchange, just like participants in a market, or citizens in a city.

If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins.

The simplest answer is that scientific management fulfilled too many hopes and prayers to be ignored merely on account of its logical and factual deficiencies.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell,' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organization are almost idential. Hell, of course, is much worse.

Office of Confusion and Panic

Even if you knew your routine like the back of your hand, a checklist was still important.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.