Quotes About Management

No management success can compensate for failure in leadership.

Put First Things First).

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

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

The Seven Habits are habits of effectiveness.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

when you pick an idiot for a job, you have to expect idiocy

Achievement requires continuous feedback. And if you're going to get the most out of your people, it's imperative that you be the one who is the most up on what the numbers are and what they mean. Motivators

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. —George S. Patton

A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we. 6.

One does not 'manage' people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths andd knowledge of each individual - Peter Drucker

One does not 'manage' people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of each individual - Peter Drucker

A carefully planned meeting can take a third of the time that an unplanned free-for-all takes.

A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker

Unconsciously, managers without leadership habits will often seek, above all else, to be liked. Rather than holding people accountable, they let them off the hook. They give non-performers the uneasy feeling that everything's fine. They are managers who seek approval rather than respect.

time warrior does not manage time. A time warrior goes to war with (challenges and cuts away) all the beliefs that create linear time.

Un crecimiento controlado, sostenido y rentable es en parte un arte y en parte una ciencia.

El crecimiento sin planificación es asunto riesgoso, muchas veces es más riesgoso que no intentar crecimiento alguno.

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

The underlying message of all these rules is that inheritance tends to work against the primary technical imperative you have as a programmer, which is to manage complexity. For the sake of controlling complexity, you should maintain a heavy bias against inheritance.

The process is called estimation, not exactimation. —Phillip Armour