Quotes About Management

I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn't always easy.

The civi service is a place where, in the stairs, those who arrive late bump into those who leave early!

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

It's so easy to delegate important work to people who are similar in temperament and skill-sets to you, or to promote them. So easy and so wrong.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It's cheaper in the long run.

As an owner, or an owner in training, you must always be alert for the telltale signs that here is a candidate for promotion and delegation.

the balance between annual profit and investment for future growth is the key. Revenues versus costs is important, but the latter should not be cut merely to meet management bonus targets. There

Employees respect a boss who knows the difference between the mundane and the exceptional. Remember that not all employees respond well to incentive bonuses or a dangled carrot of any kind. They seek recognition, not bribery. 7.

Instead of attempting to stay in day-to-day control, I have devised a system where I keep overall control, but do not involve myself in running a business unless I wish to get involved for a particular reason. I use the power of veto instead. By

many managers attempt to reach their targets simply by cutting costs. This can be fatal. Any fool can cut costs anywhere at any time.

Absentee landlords never prosper. I am not absent. But I am not exactly toiling with the troops side by side, every minute of every day.

If you want to get rich, then learn to delegate. Don't learn to pretend to delegate. Delegation is not only a powerful tool, it is the only way to maximise and truly incentivise your most precious asset – the people who work for you. Real delegation can help make you rich. But only if you work at it.

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Despite the popularity of the leadership industry, a real competence in building and leading teams is uncommon, and there isn't a generally accepted way to teach these competencies.

People who fail to manage their moods exhibit a lack of respect for their teammates.

Throughout, the Museum reflects the personal taste of Mrs. Whitney. In each case final choice of a work of art depended on her, since there is no board of trustees. This is a Museum founded, maintained and managed by artists, since Mrs. Whitney, the curator, and his assistants are sculptors or painters.

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.

Come disse l'umorista americano Will Cuppy: «La forma stessa delle piramidi è la prova che i lavoratori avevano già la tendenza a fare sempre meno».

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

The fundamental liberty interest of natural parents in the care, custody, and management of their child does not evaporate simply because they have not been model parents or have lost temporary custody of their child to the State.

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.