Quotes About Management

To adopt authority is to learn that power requires concern and competence—and that it comes at a genuine cost.

What Secrist's findings really show is that businesses are much more like the cities in Wisconsin. Superior management and business insight play a role, but so does plain luck, in equal measure.

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

El liderazgo tiene dos maneras extremas de ejercer su poder: inspirando miedo o inspirando afecto.

At bottom, one might say that human wisdom consisted in the protraction of all things, in saying "no" before saying "yes," for one could manage people only by trifling with them.

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

L'editore cavalca il turbine e dirige la tempesta.

Hire a marketing manager after two to three years. Read StoryBrand by Donald Miller. If your business is going to survive, you need to perform many tasks well at the same time.

Control the Inventory - Control the profits!

A great many of the Army officers were very fine in the way that they took care of their men. But there were certain very glaring instances of the opposite condition, and especially among these theorists, these men who were looking upon this whole thing as, perhaps, one looks upon a game of chess, or a game of football, and who were removed from actual contact with the troops.

If the Monroe was like any other hotel I'd ever stayed in, it used a piece of software called a property management system, which kept track of every time a guest room door was opened from the outside using a keycard. So there was always what's called an audit trail.

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political," Song said.

Thistleclaw practically had to sit on him to stop him.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

In designing your game's internal economy, you need to watch out for deadlocks, which can occur whenever there's a loop in the production process. To avoid deadlocks, either avoid such loops or provide an alternative source for one of the resources.

Our age will be known as the age of committees.

Did my 'recruit profile' mention that my anger-management issues might be linked to the tragic death of my father in a shit-factory explosion when I was ten months old?" The

For those who govern find it necessary to occupy themselves with things which they do not understand, and, above all, to waste the greater part of their energy in keeping themselves in power, striving to satisfy their friends, holding the discontented in check, and mastering the rebellious.

She'd worried at the beginning when she first met them that there were too many patrones. But within weeks she was sure that there was really one boss, and that the other three were working for her.

In our business, it is helpful to get to the one or two really important numbers that need to be considered. There isn't time for more." We concur.

Suppose your team has come up with some interesting ideas that don't fit under the main issues. What then? You could ignore those points, but that wouldn't help Acme. You could make them issues in their own right, but then you would have too many issues. A good McKinsey issue list contains neither fewer than two nor more than five top-line issues (of course, three is best).