Quotes About Management

Individuals or organizations with too many priorities have no priorities and risk spinning their wheels and accomplishing nothing of significance.

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash flow is king." You

If more than one person is accountable, then no one is accountable

All executives and middle managers should have a coach (or peer coach) holding them accountable for behavioral changes. We

Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You, by Rosanne Badowski. She is Jack Welch's longstanding executive assistant and has written a book that we highly recommend all executive assistants read.

As we've mentioned several times, the strategic planning process comprises two distinct activities: strategic thinking and execution planning. Strategic thinking is coming up with a few big-picture ideas. Execution planning is figuring out how to make them happen.

successful companies held three to 10 times more cash assets than average for their industries, and they did so from the time they started. (We

Avoid checking up on whether someone did something the previous day. Team members will start feeling like they are being micromanaged. In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

The 75 Measures Every Manager Needs to Know, by Bernard Marr.

1 weakness of growth firms is marketing, the #2 problem is accounting.

si usted no está en condiciones de solventar a las personas que pueden dirigir el negocio en su lugar, usted sólo dispone de un empleo, no de un negocio.

Scaling Up is organized around the 4 Decisions a leader must address: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.

In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

Four Decisions, which emphasizes the main categories of decisions that all companies must get right. They are: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.

Manejar el Efectivo, ¡No se quede sin él! Esto significa que debe prestar tanta atención al impacto que tiene cada decisión en el flujo de caja, como a los ingresos y las ganancias.

Disminuir en un 80% el tiempo que le lleva al equipo clave dirigir la compañía (actividades operativas).

Senior leaders need to be in the market 80% of the week, either figuratively or literally.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

It's that big guy who's the government.

The partnership culture gave way to a bonus culture, in which employees felt free to take huge risks with other people's money in order to generate revenue and big bonuses. Risk management on Wall Street [became] a farce, with risk managers being steamrolled by bankers, traders, and executives focused nearly exclusively on maximizing annual profits—and the size of their annual bonuses.

Claudia Gould, the woman Rapp lived with and who also happened to be Coleman's logistics director

bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.

We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.