Quotes About Management

But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage their own affairs. His opposition to bureaucracy will bear careful analysis, and the country could stand a great deal more of its application. The trouble with us is that we talk about Jefferson but do not follow him. In his theory that the people should manage their government, and not be managed by it, he was everlastingly right.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Sleeplessness creates a vicious negative spiral with bipolar, causing sleeplessness and sleeplessness contributing to bipolar. Sleep management is important in trying to hinder the progression of bipolar disorder.

There are no office hours for leaders.

A strategy of watch and wait is usually the wisest first step, but people frequently apply another management plan: engage and enrage.

What are some of the things your last employer could have done to be more successful? Does the applicant offer a long list of items and appear to feel he could have run things better than management did? Are his comments constructive or angry? There is a follow-up:

The concept of appropriate supervision can be stated in six words: praise for performance—correction for errors.

Simply put, if you have some emotion within you that you don't know how to manage, you seal that emotion away and start trying to manage other people's versions of it.

All her life she had been such a planner, a plotter, a plodder. She planned meals the week before so she knew how to shop. She planned vacations a year in advance so they could save on airfare.

A process is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone.

PROCESS is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-valued milestone so it Can be performed effectively and efficiently Can be managed effectively Offers the potential for a competitive advantage

An organization is only as effective as its processes.

a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone in a way that meets three specific criteria: 1. Effective and efficient performance 2. Effective management 3. Competitive advantage

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Let's play a little game I like to call Cole's in Charge and Ali's Not.

Left unchecked, technical debt will ensure that the only work that gets done is unplanned work!

we're hearing more lately: something called "DevOps." Maybe everyone attending this party is a form of DevOps, but I suspect it's something much more than that. It's Product Management, Development, IT Operations, and even Information Security all working together and supporting one another.

It's difficult to overstate the enormity of this problem—it affects every organization, independent of the industry we operate in, the size of our organization, whether we are profit or non-profit. Now more than ever, how technology work is managed and performed predicts whether our organizations will win in the marketplace, or even survive.

Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: "You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.

In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

management hints that the person guilty of committing the error will be punished. They then create more processes and approvals to prevent the error from happening again.

Brent. Brent, Brent, Brent! Can't we do anything without him? Look at us! We're trying to have a management discussion about commitments and resources, and all we do is talk about one guy! I don't care how talented he is. If you're telling me that our organization can't do anything without him, we've got a big problem." Wes

It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end.