Quotes About Management

New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Countries that are occasionally immature in their ability to manage their economic affairs as well as they should - and that includes most of them - are going to find that the world is at risk.

Bureaucracy is the only form of human organization that can manage to pass a hot potato through a small crack.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

But in the information age, the paradigm for managers has shifted from managing bodies to managing minds. It is true that a body at rest is a body that is not producing. But a mind at rest could be a manager's, and a company's, greatest asset. Employees who are working ceaselessly on a problem may not be giving their brains the space they need to synthesize information and come up with insightful solutions. Think

Each of us has the same number of hours in his day, the same number of days in his year, and the chief difference between the success and the failure lies in the use to which the hours' and the days are put.

I divide officers into four classes: the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands, he has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy, but whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be responsive to their patrons. This means having dozens of copies of The Bridges of Madison County and Danielle Steele, and a consequent shortage of shelf space, to cope with which librarians have taken to purging books that haven't been checked out lately.

What's Management up to? I whispered to Bennett. My guess is a new acronym, he whispered. Departmental Unification Management Business. He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. D.U.M.B.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

Should I ration the lavatory paper, do you think, sir,' Finch said, 'or put up notices asking everyone to conserve?

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It's like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

The merc was more than a person: like a spaceship launch, her existence implied thousands of skilled people, generations of experts, wars, treaties, scholarship, and supply-chain management. Every one of them was all that.

That's the tragedy of the commons? A fairy tale about giving public assets to rich people to run as personal empires because that way they'll make sure they're better managed than they would be if we just made up some rules?

Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.

You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.

Perhaps: What is it about Trump's business record that you find most persuasive?

Coordinating the calendars of five men in their forties is like herding cats.

Work gets done in the time available.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion