Quotes About Management

It wasn't uncommon. Treated, bipolar disorder could be managed quite well in most cases. Two of my med school professors had talked openly about having it. But for some people, the medication made them feel flat. Gray. The mood swings and mania were the price they paid for a life full of color.

When managing intellectual property, your goal should be to choose the terms and conditions that maximize the value of your intellectual property, not the terms and conditions that maximize the protection.

It is well known that Nature manages, rather mysteriously, to keep constant the relative frequency of certain natural phenomena.

We are structured to manage precisely this: information; and remain in existence thanks to this.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

The entrepreneurs of new firms as much as the management of the old (whether modernizing or not) are forced to do whatever is necessary to attract the players in the casino and then worry as much – or more – about the perfor- mance of their stock valuations as about their actual profits. Financial capital reigns arrogant and production capital has no alternative but to adapt to the new rules; some agents with glee, others with horror.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

Knowing how to manage conflict is a vital skill for nurses.

In sum, historical experience already shows that rich countries are not as "special" as some cheerleaders had been arguing, both when it comes to managing capital inflows and especially when it comes to banking crises.

many companies rank low on the customer satisfaction index because their employees are discouraged, disillusioned, and uninspired.

Many of these comparison companies operated on what Collins calls a "genius with a thousand helpers" model. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Not that everyone will become a leader. Sadly, most managers and even CEOs become bosses, not leaders. They wield power instead of transforming themselves, their workers, and their organization.

Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.