Quotes About Management

The reality is that most families are overmanaged and underled.

always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management

leadership can eventually become a choice not a position

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

While the word proactivity is now fairly common in management literature, it is a word you won't find in most dictionaries. It means more than merely taking initiative. It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right brain activity. It's more of an art; it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

Effectiveness lies in the balance.

no se puede pensar en términos de eficiencia cuando se trata de personas. Se piensa en términos de efectividad con la gente y de eficiencia con las cosas.

Only if network marketers manage themselves effectively can they go on to managing their teams effectively.

But effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

I've taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right.

Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation.

Peter Drucker recommends the use of a "manager's letter" to capture the essence of performance agreements between managers and their employees. Following a deep and thorough discussion of expectations, guidelines and resources to make sure they are in harmony with organizational goals, the employee writes a letter to the manager that summarizes the discussion and indicates when the next performance plan or review discussion will take place.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things

The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people's behavior); or no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past or situational realities).

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Manage from the left; lead from the right.

Determine whether it is a direct, indirect, or no control problem.