Quotes About Management

Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,

The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

in the management of pain I can forget everything

Senior leaders used to rule, but now they merely react.

nearly half the half million were engaged in military occupations other than those of a fighting soldier or officer. And of the more than two hundred and fifty thousand men that this left technically available for active duty in the field, more than a hundred and fifty thousand at any one time were rendered—or managed to render themselves—ineffective through a variety of means and for a variety of causes.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

KEY POINT: If you don't stabilize a sales forecast, you can't control your company. If you control a forecast, you control the world.

one reason we like liquidity as a Balance-Sheet goal. It greatly increases the odds that we will have the cash we need to pay bonuses and do a lot of other things.

I am a practical man, I try to control the shape of the 'nows' which lie in the offing, instead of submitting to them as they occur.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he

trouble. As an extension of a married woman's ownership of the cart, the wife handled all issues related to money, barter, or commerce.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he told them.

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

Y, claro, todo esto nos lleva a la pregunta de qué es exactamente la alineación. La respuesta es misión, comportamientos y consecuencias.

Look, anyone can manage for the short term—just keep squeezing the lemon. And anyone can manage for the long—just keep dreaming. You were made a leader because someone believed you could squeeze and dream at the same time.

GE's system of differentiation, which separates employees into three performance categories and manages them up or out accordingly.

I always follow 4E's wrapped in a 'P

Fear had to be handled with care, managed so it became a tool, not a weight.

He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.