Quotes About Management

I hope to show in this book that it is through protocol that one must guide one's efforts, not against it.

The eldership must clarify direction and beliefs for the flock. It must set goals, make decisions, give direction, correct failures, affect change, and motivate people. It must evaluate, plan, and govern. Elders, then, must be problem solvers, managers of people, planners, and thinkers.

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.

Some behavioral psychologists defend the practice of punishing employees on the grounds that it helps to "clarify management's expectations of performance and promote goal setting."81 (This is comparable to the claim that throwing employees out an office window helps to clarify what floor they work on.) One

anger in a leader rarely produces good results.

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington.

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.

I'd actually argue that the best thing to happen to the 'Washington Post' was hiring Marty Baron, maybe the greatest newspaper editor of his generation.

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a fresh coat of paint.

I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.