Quotes About Management

High office teaches decision-making, not substance…. A period in high office consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puede haber una crisis en la siguiente semana. Mi agenda ya está llena" (Henry Kissinger)

la dependencia de la coerción es síntoma de un liderazgo inadecuado

Para el líder, la gestión del riesgo es tan crítica como la capacidad de análisis.

In other words, each side could arm itself with whatever ideological slogans fulfilled its own domestic necessities, so long as it did not let them interfere with the need for cooperation against the Soviet danger. Ideology would be relegated to domestic management; it took a leave from foreign policy. The ideological armistice was, of course, valid only so long as objectives remained compatible.

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone—good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

being a manager' means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others

Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness.

A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager's special contacts, status, and information.

To succeed, managers have to become proficient at their superficiality.

To conclude, in this chapter we have seen the characteristics of managing, as they were then and remain now: the pace, brevity, variety, fragmentation; the interruptions; the orientation to action; the oral aspect of the information; the lateral nature of much of the communication; and the tricky problem of exercising control without quite being in control.

That decision falls to scientists, engineers, and managers—with at least the tacit approval of company officers and boards of directors. All complex technology is inseparably coupled to an equally complex team of people and systems of people who should interact with one another as smoothly and with as clear a purpose as a set of well-meshed gears.

I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last. Prince

Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.

No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last.

Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last. Prince

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.