Quotes About Management

If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe to your vision and give you their best.

A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

Elon Musk personally interviewed the first three thousand employees at SpaceX because he wanted to make sure the company was hiring the right people.4

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others

Responsibility always exceeds authority

Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

Take a factory, a railway, a ship on the high seas, said Engels: is it not clear that not one of these complex technical establishments, based on the use of machinery and the systematic co-operation of many people, could function without a certain amount of subordination and, consequently, without a certain amount of authority or power?

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

The common methods of performance weight management work—they improve performance—and are therefore more or less required for sustained success in endurance sports. Dieting, in contrast, tends to sabotage performance, making sustained competitive success difficult or impossible.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

Letting go and trusting others to do things well is one of the more challenging aspects of being a leader of a growing organization.

People join companies. They leave managers.

In retaining employees and keeping them engaged, we'll cover the five activities of great (vs. good) managers: • Help people play to their strengths. • Don't demotivate; dehassle. • Set clear expectations and give employees a clear line of sight. • Give recognition and show appreciation. • Hire fewer people, but pay them more (frontline employees, not top leaders!).

Nau had been very careful that enough nukes remained. If necessary, he could play the old, old game of total disaster management. So what can be salvaged? He

Ravna thought a moment. "Sysadmin is the usual term," she said.

Dominance is not leadership. From animals, Williams said, people could learn about taking "authority without being a bully.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

I am not a dictator, I have only simplified democracy.

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.