Quotes About Management

Our Rider has a problem focus when he needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself: "What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

Effective visions expressed values that allow employees to identify with the organization…. One manager at a glass company suggested, 'it's hard to get excited about 15% return on equity.

The hard question for a leader is not how to form habits but which habits to encourage.

tripwires allow us the certainty of committing to a course of action, even a risky one, while minimizing the costs of overconfidence.

Top management challenged employees to be on the lookout for potential innovations—

increase an employee's productivity by one to two minutes a day, you've paid back the cost of wireless.

As I see it, I am not just in charge of food service; I am in charge of morale.

Or you could focus on the Path, in which case you would disregard hearts and minds entirely. In fact, suppose you stipulated outright that your workers are hopeless, that they're irredeemable daredevils who are determined to waggle their fingers in the machine's danger zone for the sheer sport of it. Could you still keep them from dismembering themselves?

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

What is it they say about an organisation being like a tree full of monkeys? The ones at the top look down and see a lot of smiling faces, the ones at the bottom look up and see a bunch of arseholes?

Scrum recognizes only three distinct roles: product owner, scrum master, and team member

A development team represents a significant investment on the part of the business.

We have seen a few examples of teams trying to have one person serve as both scrum master and product owner. In all the cases we have seen, this has failed.

The product owner is responsible for recording the requirements, often in the form of user stories

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.