Quotes About Management

The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.

Execution requires a comprehensive understanding of a business, its people, and its environment.

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A leader of the business knows what to do. A leader of people knows how to get it done.

Many business heads also feel that they're "going it alone"—they're receiving much less guidance from their boss than they did when they were functional managers.

everyone will be fighting harder and smarter to win market share. Each company will be searching for a new advantage, in the form of products, technologies, management, locations, prices, among many other variables.

The heart of execution lies in the three core processes: the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process.

Over the years I've asked many of them what was the greatest mistake they ever made in the area of people. The most common answer? "Waiting too long" to remove a direct report who was not matched to the job.

Spare not, nor spend too much, be this thy care, Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Who spends too much may want, and so complain; But he spends best that spares to spend again.

Management is a methodical process; its purpose is to produce the desired results on time and on budget. It complements and supports but cannot do without leadership, in which character and vision combine to empower someone to venture into uncertainty.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Those who organize the world organize both suffering and the pain-killers for dealing with it;

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

If a corporation has two executives who think alike, one of them is unnecessary" Reply to a student at a management seminar 1973 when asked if all his managers were required to share his conservative view. (Quoted in John F. Love's book "McDonald's behind the golden arches", p87)

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

People often go through three stages in considering the impact of future technology: awe and wonderment at its potential to overcome age-old problems; then a sense of dread at a new set of grave dangers that accompany these novel technologies; followed finally by the realization that the only viable and responsible path is to set a careful course that can realize the benefits while managing the dangers.

Of course you get butterflies as a manager.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

You have to be calm as a manger.