Quotes About Management

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

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Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.

Prioritization is rightly the job of the business sector, not the technology organization, and so should not be within a technical manager's remit. Unfortunately, it is commonplace for business management to abdicate that responsibility and leave a technical manager to prioritize the work—and

Donald Wheeler and Donald Reinertsen on variability and queuing;

Kanban must not be thought of as a software development lifecycle process or a project-management process. Kanban is a change-management technique that requires making alterations to an existing process: changes such as adding work-in-progress limits to it. Work

I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge.

He wanted the assurance from the department that nothing was going wrong underneath. But as long as that was the case, he didn't really want to get into all the detail of how the Job Network was actually running. He was not hands-on. He was generally interested in employment but he was not one of those ministers who run their department.

if we're so good at helping companies strengthen their products, services and brands, then why are we so poor at applying the same deliberate choreography to our own business operations?

To re-create the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the sort we'd had at Chouinard Equipment, we broke the line into eight categories and hired eight product czars to manage them. Each was responsible for his or her own product development, marketing, inventory, quality control, and coordination with the three sales channels—wholesale, mail order, and retail.

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.

I don't mean that my mother didn't love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her.

Disciplinarians thrive under chaos!

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

I am always running late for absolutely everything; my hair's the last thing I do because I am terrible at it.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

Responsibility and accountability has to be taken by the top order.

In government, one actress is enough.

I do not agree that the coach has to adapt to the players. There was a time when I thought it, but that was because I did not understand football.

I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.