Quotes About Management

He moved instead to an investment strategy that required no great macroeconomic insight. Instead, he explained, "As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

If managers tend to have a bad reputation, what should we make of the people who tell managers how to manage?

Anyone who insists that running a modern economy is a matter of plain common sense frankly doesn't understand much about running a modern economy.

It's my job to run the division, and it's your job to critique me.' Petraeus

Ormerod's discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.

Ultimately, it becomes obvious that diabetes is controlled (or even reversed) one meal at a time.

In the US, the total cost of treatment has been put at two hundred and forty-five billion dollars every year. Equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Israel. Many people fear that the medical management of diabetes could bankrupt every single healthcare system in the future.

They would get their shit together, and keep it together, and maintain it neatly and in good working order.

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

promoted to captain and given command of a company

Yet another proof that the drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far-reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One could almost hear the "Oops!" emanating from all those old graves.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

Efficiency was a concept foreign to most government agencies, not because there was anything wrong with the people, but because nobody had ever told them to do better.

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

The new system created by Goldwater-Nichols was not universally popular in the Pentagon, but the people in the field loved it.

But if you don't address financial issues in a grown-up fashion, you'll end up poor, which is no fun at all.

The great management guru Charles Handy says that, as far as money goes, you have to look after yourself. He reckons you may need to do something else as well as your "passion project" to earn money, particularly in the early stages of a new business

the job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top.

a man who perfectly exemplified the old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a management consultant)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the United States, was the Supreme Allied Commander in World War II. He said this about logistics: "You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

Poor project management is the leading cause of failure in technical projects

A lot of us will be able to show how God's gifts benefited us. But that's not the question. The issue with a steward is, how did the King's business fare under your management? Is the King better off? Was His agenda furthered?

But republics and democracies exist only by virtue of the engagement of their citizens in the management of public affairs. If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants.