Quotes About Management

You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.

trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration's first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.

Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not exist, if it did not happen in Trump's presence.

Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House.

military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles.

Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept.

Trump was impetuous and yet did not like to make decisions, at least not ones that seemed to corner him into having to analyze a problem.

For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of the three men, she would be countermanded by one or another of them.

Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires.

Donald Trump may have done any number of things that, given good sense and the letter of the law, he should not have done. But with his short attention span, inability to manage multiple variables, exclusive focus on his own immediate needs, and general disregard of all future outcomes, the notion of pinning a grand conspiracy on him seemed like a big stretch.

Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.

Trump was the one variable that, in management terms, simply could not be controlled. He was like a recalcitrant two-year-old. If you tried to control him, it would only have the opposite effect.

His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein—wondered if there couldn't somehow be two parallel White House structures, one dedicated to their father's big-picture views, personal appearances, and salesmanship and the other concerned with day-to-day management issues.

In mutually codependent fashion, Ivanka relied on Dina to suggest management tactics that would help her handle her father and the White House, while Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.

This was the job Bannon a week later.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.

Despite spending a whole day on it, my end result read like every boilerplate in the handbook. What church didn't want a superb preacher with a lively intellect and a contagious sense of humor? Who didn't want a warm presence with a progressive social conscience, the management skills of a corporate CEO, and the work-life boundaries of a New Age life coach?

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Hay tantas cosas de las que debemos preocuparnos y tan poco tiempo para atenderlas todas…