Quotes About Management

Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership.

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with most people's personal management systems is that they blend a few actionable things with a large amount of data and material that has value but no action attached.

It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Lots of people have been making lists for years but have never found the procedure to be particularly effective.

When time itself turned into a work factor, personal calendars became a key work tool.

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Uncaptured, unclarified, and therefore unmanaged things that you have agreed to do own a piece of you and give you no rest.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

there are five discrete stages that we go through as we deal with our work. We (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

contexto, tiempo disponible, energía disponible y prioridad.

A Projects list Project support material Calendar actions and information Next Actions lists A Waiting For list Reference material A Someday/Maybe list

Appropriately used, checklists can be a tremendous asset in enhancing personal productivity and relieving mental pressure.

thousands of people is that most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Open loops can include everything from really big to-do items like "End world hunger" to the more modest "Hire new assistant" to the tiniest task such as "Replace porch lightbulb.

The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions. That

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action. Getting

Often, on the low-tech side, the more "executive" something looks, the more dysfunctional it really is.

Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative