Quotes About Management

The decisions related to recruitment are all taken by football experts. My involvement is signing off the money.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don't edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Deutsche Bank has a very simple problem. It doesn't make money.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

Chapter 2: Managing Challenge

hear it again." "I'm listening." "We've got a good business here, but you're screwing it up." "What are you talking

Arthur Steele is getting very generous with his directors, isn't he?

I'm capable of screwing things up by trying to solve all the problems in advance instead of simply taking care of issues as they surface. I

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

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. 

The Art of War is self-explanatory

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State.