Quotes About Management

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

...even the best worker cannot beat a bad system...

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Globally competitive companies don't eschew profit or financial well-being, but they do not believe businesses achieve financial goals by using accounting variables to control people's work. They see employees as a source of learning, not as a cost.

What I believe has happened in American businesses since the 1950s is that managers and operating personnel at all levels have lost sight of people, customers, and processes as top management has turned everyone's attention to accounting results.

a better question might be: How can I help the client's management arrive at the answer?

Helping clients manage their emotions and energy is a big part of what coaches in all these realms do.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

I suspicion there are a few things ye try hard to keep under control." "Och, aye. I dinnae purr. Tis too cursed unmonly," he drawled as he walked away. Cathal laughed and continued on his way to collect his wife.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The more we suppress anger, the more it accumulates.

Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how to do it. Planning bridges the gap between where we are and where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).

venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.

ownership of Mark Mortimer's firm, Barry