Quotes About Management

when attacked, centralized organizations tend to become even more centralized.

Having a goal is very different from having an agenda. You want to focus people without constraining them, something that is equally true in a corporate environment.

Drucker argued that this decentralization was key to the success of GM.

El aspecto clave del revenue management es la gestión de los precios, factor que, en principio, permite discriminar la demanda. Para poder determinar el éxito de la gestión de precios se puede utilizar el ratio de ingresos por habitación disponible (en inglés, RevPar, revenue per available room),

in general, strategy should be reviewed every quarter and updated every year.

When a strategic principle is well crafted and effectively communicated, managers at all levels can be trusted to make decisions that advance rather than undermine company strategy.

a measure of "declining sales" certainly points to a problem, but "revenue churn"—specifically, how many customers canceled contracts—tells management where to intervene.

A person either disciplines his finances or his finances disciplines him.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

Today's liberal democracy, with its culture of transgression, its drive to liberate anything and everything done by and between consenting adults, and its mania for management by metrics, appears bent on adding to history's examples of societies that failed to manage vice and the crooked timber of our humanity.

Entrepreneurs juggle multiple responsibilities every day.

Leading a high-performance team can be both challenging and rewarding.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

Besides fixed assets, an industrial company needs to manage working capital efficiently.

Leadership plays a significant role in creating culture.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

Don't you have something more important to do?" I asked him, flipping on the light on. "Like ruling the world or something" -Mercy

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

thousand details aligned in his head—things he'd see to, people he'd call, decisions he'd make—to

going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle