Quotes About Management

If you let your emotions cling to an OCD behavior, the behavior can easily get out of control.

Thinking is very hard work. And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking.

If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would be in jail.

The tendency for organizations to place too much value on people who seem smart and who talk a lot, and too little value on people who do smart things and get a lot of things done, is exacerbated by the way that MBAs and executives are taught and by the methods used in most management consulting firms.

Planning is essentially unrelated to organizational performance

her as she gracefully seated herself. "It helps to remember that the one who loses their temper has relinquished control of a situation. The one who remains calm controls the outcome.

This is the deal, honey—" "The name's Sunny, not Honey." "It's a natural law. In every situation in life, someone has to be in charge. If it's a situation I'm a part of, then I'm the one in charge.

Then we cleaned up, and put everything straight (a continual labour, which was beginning to afford me a pretty clear insight into a question that had often posed me—namely, how a woman with the work of only one house on her hands manages to pass away her time)

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?

What's this? Petty Cash

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

Organization is the Devil's work.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.