Quotes About Management

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

You can't manage what you can't measure.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

He knew very little about running a case, and everything about watching over people's shoulders.

Traits I can manage, prohibited words I can't.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

And the warden put all the prisoners under Josephís care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.

Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

Solomonís provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.