Quotes About Management

I never expected the players to love me, but neither did I want them to hate me, because that would have made it impossible to extract the most from them. All I wanted was for them to respect me and follow my instructions.

A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.

a display of temper is more effective if used sparingly. I just don't believe that you can get the most out of people if they are perpetually afraid of you.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It

I was the puppet master, not the control freak.

Nobody had ever explained to me that working with, and through, others is by far the most effective way to do things - assuming, of course, that they understand what you want and are keen to follow. I gradually began to understand that this is the difference between management and leadership.

It was to set very high standards. It was to help everyone else believe they could do things that they didn't think they were capable of. It was to chart a course that had not been pursued before. It was to make everyone understand that the impossible was possible. That's the difference between leadership and management.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It just doesn't work if you are congenitally hesitant and allow things to linger in a state of suspension.

There is also the question of when you should make a decision. There are probably only two times to do so - too early and too late. If I was going to err on making one of those mistakes, I far preferred to make the decision earlier rather than later. That's much easier to say than to do.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

These are exceptional examples. On the whole it is better to explain to the people around you that you care about little details, but that it's their job to attend to them.

The great leader knows that most success comes from making a few large decisions correctly rather than trying to be involved in making lots of small choices.

When he eventually retires, his organisation will be little different from the one he inherited. It will definitely not have achieved anything remarkable.

For my last 15 years at United I had a rolling one-year contract and an agreement that if I was sacked I would be entitled to two years' salary, even if I turned up and started managing Manchester City the day after I was fired. That was more than enough for me.

Hay que disponer a todo el mundo para el éxito, lo que requiere una profunda reflexión. Resulta muy fácil crear expectativas poco realistas, es algo que aprendí muy pronto en mi carrera.

The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.

when you're managing change, you have to accept the quieter spells and acknowledge that transformations take longer than a year.

I couldn't take sides against mu players. I had to find solutions other than castigating them in public. Sometimes I had to fine or punish them, of course, but I could never let it out of the dressing room. I would have felt I had betrayed the one constant principle of my time as a manager: to defend. No, not to defend, but to protect them from outside judgments.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand.

the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

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