Quotes About Management

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The same collection of cut-throats, crooks, and incompetents are still steering our planet's various ships of state.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

Sewing forever, housework whenever.

You manage things. You lead people.

Leaders get rewarded for the three Bs: budgets, buildings and butts in the seats.

Crisis management, he'd learned, generally balanced on getting others to focus on a different crisis, one of his choosing. Bait and switch, sleight of hand, a gentle tap to send the news cycle into a different spin.

Project management is simply the process of managing projects (and you thought this was going to be difficult).

The operational work is the ongoing, repetitive set of activities that sustain the organization.

The master principles of expectations management are the following: Get buy-in Take care of business Communicate the big picture Listen and be alert Take the stakeholders' perspective Never assume

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you don't have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply a habitual part of what you do every day. That is why I emphasize the five habits of stress management, not the five rules or the five goals. If you make these five habits an essential part of your life, then you will be able to manage stress effectively.

No one can save time. It's not like money. You can't deposit the time you save into an account and use it later. Time passes. Time is a constantly depleting resource. Once it's gone, it's gone, and you will NEVER get it back.

The most important principle in your relationship with time is that time is perishable. No one can save time. It's not like money. You can't deposit the time you don't use into an account and use it later. Time passes. Time is a constantly depleting resource. Once it's gone, it's gone, and you will never get it back.

I've been successful at Manchester United for many years and it's not without its problems – every hour of every day you have to deal with something.

He became as demanding of himself as he was with his players and staff but, in everything he did, he always made it a priority to explain why he was asking them to do something. He was always the first to arrive and the last to leave, working mornings and afternoons at the training ground. Every aspect of running the team had to be under his control: he demanded daily reports and updates from all his staff. Nothing was left to chance.

Pep's do-or-die attitude from the sidelines (constantly correcting and signalling during games, treating every match as if it were the last, intensely focused on the job, passionate and occasionally over-exuberant) as well as his off-pitch behaviour (making the team eat together, scouting rival players and teams, unheard of at the time in the third division) suggested he was a leader, ready for management. Ready to lead at any level. Any team.

Ingla and Txiki set out a plan for the rest of the season which saw them working and consulting simultaneously with both Rijkaard and Pep, talking about players, injuries and recoveries and principally how to shake up the working model of the club. The primary goal was to professionalise the first team.