Quotes About Management

Find out how much time you have then get busy using it.

Christians should be good managers and stewards of God's riches

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don't want them working for you.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Market demand for management system standards has led to an increase in the number of subject and sector-specific standards. There are now MSSs that cover health and safety, medical, environment, services, information technology and more... so the auditing of these systems needs to reflect the variety and number of standards being developed.

If…there is a conflict between structure and strategy, the structure will win.

What matters about creating alignment around a strategy is not the volume of communication, but its quality and precision.

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

Budgets were originally designed as control mechanisms. As such they are traps …

In a matrix structure of the kind prevalent today, thinking two levels up also has the benefit of helping to resolve the dilemmas the matrix naturally creates. The "next level up" may well be ambiguous. Two bosses might point in different directions. Understanding the level above them generally resolves the issue and allows action.

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor's classic The Principles of Scientific Management enshrined the machine model for several generations. This approach to management rests on three premises: 1 In principle it is possible to know all you need to know to be able to plan what to do. 2 Planners and doers should be separated. 3 "There is but one right way." A manager was a programmer of robot workers. The essence of management was to create perfect plans and tell people precisely

The big issue was not strategy but executing strategy. There was plenty of activity, but not much action.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

We found in surveys of Agile teams that some 80 percent to 90 percent of Agile teams perceive tension between the way the Agile team is run and the way the whole organization is run. In half of those cases, the tension was "serious.