Quotes About Management

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran. Else it trickle away through his fingers.

Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, was passionate about seeking to improve meetings. He once wrote, "Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers." A poorly conducted and unnecessary meeting is indeed a form of time theft, a theft that can be prevented.

a big, messy linear problem can always be broken into smaller, more manageable parts. Then each part can be solved separately, and all the little answers can be recombined to solve the bigger problem. So it's literally true that in a linear problem, the whole is exactly equal to the sum of the parts.

The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.

To Dick's mind, the flow of information should be channeled with discretion, with an unambiguous interpretation controlled by the people at the top.

since time is a luxury you don't always have." He believed

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get