Quotes About Management

I'm out of practice at controlling my expression. Right now I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the region of stunned horror, or maybe appalled horror.

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

Part I opens the kimono with a hairy entrée into the global megaverse of top-tier management consulting, with these observations: 1. A bloodcurdling litany of betrayal and alcoholism 2. Behind-the-scenes truth about a very powerful, very short man 3. A lighthearted look at global consulting behemoth McKinsey and its resemblance to a certain Renaissance warmonger 4. Why your child will never go to Harvard Business School 5. A consulting hymnal and songbook3

In some instances, I've found that executives don't even use their own products.

Teniendo en cuenta que el equipo directivo no sabe qué hacer con el Big Data, todo el mundo está a la búsqueda del pos-Big Data, y la respuesta son los pequeños datos».

It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Accordingly, the Chinese texts regard war not as an instrument for the attainment of this end or that but as the product of stern necessity, something which must be confronted and coped with and managed and brought to an end. Clausewitz emphasizes that war is brutal and bloody and seeks to achieve a great victory. By contrast, the Chinese texts are permeated by a humanitarian approach and have as their aim the restoration of dao.

So we're not trying to stop organized crime," said Bruno. "We're just trying to organize it better.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only de-motivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

attempting to maximize utilization is a self-defeating process. Optimal utilization can be achieved only by concentrating on flow.

It would be much better to assign work to established teams than to reconstitute teams around projects.

In a three-year period, we had 78 projects, and 77 of them were delivered on time, on budget, and in scope. Then I surveyed the customers and found out that none of them was happy!

No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led," wrote John Kotter

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

Plan your work, work your plan.

The essence of 5S is to follow what has been agreed on. It begins with discarding what we don't need in the gemba (seiri) and then arranging all the necessary items in the gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (seiso), and these three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (shitsuke).

Hence the five golden rules of gemba management: 1. When a problem (abnormality) arises, go to the gemba first. 2. Check the gembutsu ("relevant objects"). 3. Take temporary countermeasures on the spot. 4. Find the root cause. 5. Standardize to prevent recurrence. Go

People within a company can be divided into two groups: those who earn money and those who don't. Only those frontline people who develop, produce, and sell products are earning money for the company. The ideal company would have only one person who does not earn money—the president—leaving the rest of the employees directly involved in revenue-generating activity.