Quotes About Management

expulsamos a un par de jefes de cada equipo SEAL por su incapacidad para mandar.

The Effective Executive,

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Falta de tiempo es falta de prioridades.

You can't make a lousy charity good by having a low overhead.

NR: To have others work for you.

NR: To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.

People can't believe that most of the ultrasuccessful companies in the world do not manufacture their own products, answer their own phones, ship their own products, or service their own customers. There are hundreds of companies that exist to pretend to work for someone else and handle these functions, providing rentable infrastructure to anyone who knows where to find them.

Higher pricing means that we can sell fewer units—and thus manage fewer customers—and fulfill our dreamlines. It's faster. Higher pricing attracts lower-maintenance customers (better credit, fewer complaints/questions, fewer returns, etc.). It's less headache. This is HUGE. Higher pricing also creates higher profit margins. It's safer.

What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker

Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.

What gets measured gets managed.

To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.

learned here. First, per-hour cost is not the ultimate determinant of cost. Look at per-task cost.

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suddenly, you're going to have to lead it a different way, and what you're really going to have to do is develop people. The advice I'd give to anyone young is it's really about developing people who are going to do the work.

Meetings should only be held to make decisions about a predefined situation, not to define the problem.

Back to Tony, "cap the downside" also applies to thinking long-term about fees and middlemen: "If three of my friends [and I] all put aside the same amount of money, and we all get a 7% return, but my buddy's getting fees of 3%, my other buddy's 2%, and I'm 1%, and all three of us put $1 million in or $100,000 . . . the person with 3% of fees ends up with 65% less money [in the long-term]. . . .

The Checklist Manifesto.

If you are a micromanaging entrepreneur, realize that even if you can do something better than the rest of the world, it doesn't mean that's what you should be doing if it's part of the minutiae. Empower others to act without interrupting you.

There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

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There are many organizations that fret over small, direct expenses, yet have no misgivings about keeping superfluous staff tied up in a conference room for hours.

Realize that bosses are supervisors, not slave masters.