Quotes About Management

The British proponents of free trade might have thought this a far more efficient way of managing international affairs than one based on nationalism and war, with peace dependent on a tenuous balance of power.

David Barry and Michael Elmes consider strategy, "one of the most prominent, influential and costly stories told in organizations.

Cuando en 1914 Ford empezó a tener dificultades para mantener una fuerza de trabajo estable debido a la monotonía y el aburrimiento de la línea de montaje, anunció que pagaría a sus trabajadores cinco dólares diarios. Siempre dijo que ese había sido uno de los «recortes de costes de producción más inteligentes que hemos hecho».

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

Because it often proves difficult to downsize a work force even if people don't have anything to do.

Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Here is a fact which may seem discouraging at first blush, but one which on reflection will encourage and inspire confidence; immense industrial undertakings do not need great men.

Most management advice for the last twenty-five years has focused on issues like empathy and compassion. Advice books encourage building teamwork through kindness and understanding. There's been very little written about scaring the pants off employees to improve results. But as Richard Nixon said, "People react to fear, not love—they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The lead and his two deputies will also pore through the pages trying to find ways to integrate new ideas.

Seventy-seven percent of teachers admit that their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time dealing with disruptive students (Public Agenda, 2004).

Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).

Marcin Chwistek is a physician who specializes in cancer pain management and palliative care.

To develop a national park is to not have one.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

If I had to sum up in one word the qualities that make a good manager, I'd say that it all comes down to decisiveness.

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, I and my family could have a tragedy.

You can bargain for better wages, you can bargain for higher productivity bonuses. But once the bargain has been struck, then you must enter into the spirit of the agreement, and put in an honest day's work for an honest day's wage. There must be no fooling around, work means discipline. Singapore's success depends on the spirit in which workers, management and government, all three, enter into the spirit of cooperation, necessary for prosperity.