Quotes About Management

Unfortunately, personalities, good feelings, goodwill, and luck aren't the only ingredients of a successful organization; alone, they are the recipe for chaos and disaster.

Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.

The system runs the business. The people run the system.

Your Business Development Program is the vehicle through which you can create your Franchise Prototype. The Program is composed of seven distinct steps: 1. Your Primary Aim 2. Your Strategic Objective 3. Your Organizational Strategy 4. Your Management Strategy 5. Your People Strategy 6. Your Marketing Strategy 7. Your Systems Strategy

He was running the business for him, not for me.

it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.

By identifying the money sources inside and outside of your business, and then applying these methods, you are better able to control the Flow in your business. But what are these sources? They include how you: Plan a project Buy materials Compensate your people Plan people's time Estimate a job Sell a job Manage a job Collect receivables

if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

The value of your Equity is directly proportional to how well your business works. And how well your business works is directly proportional to the effectiveness of the systems you have put into place, upon which the operation of your business depends.

Widget Makers, Inc. Organization Chart

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent. How can I create an expert system rather than hire one?

La mayoría de las empresas consideran que las personas son un problema.

productive and happy as possible. "And if I only indulge my preferences, I will never be able to replace myself with anyone other than another owner, someone just like me, someone with

The Entrepreneur's boundary is a function of how many managers he can engage in pursuit of his vision.

And that was the second thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager continued. "How seriously the Boss took the operation of this hotel.

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

It reveals an understanding of what makes a great business great. It also tells us what makes all other businesses survivable at their best; intolerable at their worst.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.

General management is more than the stewardship of individual functions. Its core is strategy: defining and communicating the company's unique position, making trade-offs, and forging fit among activities.

Indeed, one of the most important functions of an explicit, communicated strategy is to guide employees in making choices that arise because of trade-offs in their individual activities and in day-to-day decisions. Improving

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

Loose management practices dominate agency cultures, just as they did during the high-profit past. Client heads are not held accountable for depressed fee levels, unmanaged workloads or insufficient resources for client work. Office heads are not held accountable for the varied performance of their client heads.

Agencies missed the significance of "shareholder value" and the change in priorities that it represented to their clients. They assumed, perhaps, that creativity and big ideas were eternal verities – that they were what clients needed under any circumstances. Shareholder value was just another management trend, buzzword of the month – nothing to worry about. The