Quotes About Management

If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

As leaders, it's our job to hold people accountable and to produce results for our partners, customers, and families.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

Why, given their advanced mathematical ideas, did the Arabs not proceed to probability theory and risk management? The answer, I believe, has to do with their view of life. Who determines our future: the fates, the gods, or ourselves? The idea of risk management emerges only when people believe that they are to some degree free agents. Like the Greeks and the early Christians, the fatalistic Muslims were not yet ready to take the leap.

There is a strong probability that the hot manager of today will be the cold manager of tomorrow, or at least the day after tomorrow, and vice versa. This

La palabra "riesgo" procede del italiano risicare, que significa "atreverse". En este sentido, el riesgo es más bien una elección que un destino.... La idea de la gestión de riesgos solo surge cuando las personas creen que hasta cierto punto son agentes libres.

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.

I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly

There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

More than twenty years ago, Peter Drucker described managers as "relays—human boosters for the faint, unfocused signals that pass for information in the traditional, pre-information organization.

The planning process includes at least the following six functions: forming a representation of the problem, choosing a goal, deciding to plan, formulating a plan, executing and monitoring the plan, and learning from the plan.

Norvig: I think one of the most important things is being able to keep everything in your head at once. If you can do that you have a much better chance of being successful. That makes a small program easier. For a bigger program, you need extra tools to be able to handle that.

I think it is always going to be true that a person who manages programmers should not expect it to be predictable.

El hecho de que la política esté cambiando cada vez más hacia la gestión de la fatalidad es propio de la naturaleza de los procesos multifactoriales. El juego con el azar se está volviendo, a su vez, cada vez más aleatorio.

You have to have more leadership, less management. It's about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert