Quotes About Management

The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

Emotional volatility is not the most reliable leadership tool. When you get angry, you are usually out of control. It's hard to lead people when you've lost control. You may think you have a handle on your temper, that you can use your spontaneous rages to manipulate and motivate people. But it's very hard to predict how people will react to anger.

All other things being equal, your people skills (or lack of them) become more pronounced the higher up you go. In fact, even when all other things are not equal, your people skills often make the difference in how high you go.

Your people are changing constantly and it's right in front of your eyes. If you don't change accordingly, you may as well be managing with your eyes wide shut. That's the most unforgivable prejudice of all.

Effective leaders know this intuitively. They know who on their team can be left alone and who needs more direction. Other strong leaders learn it through observation and trial and error.

For bosses this means closely monitoring how you hand out encouragement. If you find yourself saying, "Great idea," and then dropping the other shoe with a tempering "but" or "however," try cutting your response off at "idea." Even better, before you speak, take a breath and ask yourself if what you're about to say is worth it.

A lowly clerk expressing an opinion doesn't get people's notice at a company. But when the CEO expresses that opinion, everyone jumps to attention. The higher up you go, the more your suggestions become orders.

the higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral.

inside each of us are two separate personas. There's the leader/planner/manager who plans to change his or her ways. And there's the follower/doer/employee who must execute the plan.

Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that.

Don't blame the horse when you've got the reins.

How the hell am I supposed to keep track of everyone around here when no one listens to a thing I say?

This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader.

A must-read for new supervisors and managers, with lots of essential lessons and tips.

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

I guess you could pay off the management to let you bring in a SecUnit and weapons and do a hostage exchange, but they drew the line at giving you free feed access.