Quotes About Management

[On invading Iraq:] You break it, you own it.

The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care.

When things go badly, it is your fault, not theirs. You are responsible. Analyze how it happened, make the necessary fixes, and move on. No mass punishment or floggings. Fire people if you need to, train harder, insist on a higher level of performance, give halftime rants if that shakes a group up. But never forget that failure is your responsibility.

I also made a beeline for the latrine. Not just to see if it was clean. Was there a shortage of toilet paper, were any mirrors cracked, were there any missing showerheads? Finding any of these situations immediately told me one of several things—the unit is running short of upkeep money, no one is checking on these things to get them fixed, or the troops are not being supervised well enough. Find out which and fix it.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

Recibo tantos comunicados de mis ministros, les remito tantos y tengo tantos papeles que firmar que siempre estoy enormemente atareada. Este trabajo me encanta».

Great managers play favorites and spend most of their time with their most productive people. Not because they discriminate, but because they deserve the attention and have so much to teach you.

When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

If she couldn't partner with a boss, how could she partner with clients or an entire organization

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.

Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.

I feel like if I can help somebody look at money differently or manage their finances differently or spend a little differently, then I feel like I'm doing my job. So I'll try to help them see the bigger picture and think longevity versus the temporary spending that we're kind of accustomed to.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.