Quotes About Management

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.

Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days when some bureaucrat in Delhi decided what managing directors would earn, but how about more transparency in reporting pay and perks from multiple sources and giving teeth to institutional investors.

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. 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.

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.

When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.

The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

As chief of staff, I was responsible for running a multibillion-dollar organization with over 34,000 employees, and working on everything from health care to transportation.

The secret of success in life is time rightly used.

Rule a kingdom as if cooking a small fish," he once told me. "If you interfere with it too much while cooking, it will fall apart and be inedible.

U cant lead a group, when u don't know how to lead yourself

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.