Quotes About Management

An army of donkeys led by a lion is more effective than an army of lions led by a donkey! â–  The primacy of politics in military affairs is absolute, and often works against military effectiveness.

Pecnia na regimen est rrum omnium. (Publilius Sent.:

O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk-taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

La gerencia tiene mucho más que ver con el mantenimiento de los procesos, las disciplinas y los sistemas que con el cambio de los mismos. Un buen líder, en cambio, aunque mantiene la estabilidad, debe tener la visión, la creatividad y sobre todo la capacidad para influir en sus colaboradores con el fin de que lo apoyen en los retos que implica llevar a una organización a territorios inexplorados, donde abundan los riesgos.

Yo creo, como dicen algunos, que "Dios está en los detalles". En este caso, se trata de detalles que pasan desapercibidos para los altos directivos desde sus oficinas lujosas.

hay un área en las que usted debe meterse y hacer buena parte de trabajo por sí mismo es el proceso de contratación.

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Hacer contrataciones a las carreras casi nunca sale bien y contratar a la persona equivocada puede ser muy perjudicial para su equipo. Más vale funcionar con escasez de personal durante un tiempo.

la cultura se come a la estrategia de un bocado".

El arte de delegar es una de las habilidades claves que cualquier emprendedor debe dominar. "Contrate gente que no tenga sus debilidades". Si

porque antes no podían tener contacto con la gente de la gerencia, pues "siempre estaban en reunión".

Los grandes líderes casi siempre son unos grandes simplificadores, que reducen las discusiones, los debates y las dudas a sus elementos esenciales, a fin de ofrecer una solución que todo el mundo pueda entender". COLIN POWELL

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

Meanwhile, the Flatt and Scruggs juggernaut rolled on. Under Louise Scruggs's shrewd management, Monroe's former sidemen had become the bluegrass darlings of the northern folk music revival.

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.

What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

even when you are talking to the boss, you need to warn of the threat of an impending disaster.

One way to salvage the Becker conjecture is to argue that CEOs, coaches, and other managers who are hired because they have a broad range of skills, which may not include analytical reasoning, could simply hire geeks who would deserve to be members of Becker's 10% to crunch the numbers for them. But my hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink.

professional money managers perform no better than simple market averages

no propugnamos un gobierno más grande, sino sólo mejor gobernanza.

computers have given top management the power to micromanage their organization, and top management has shown little or no ability to resist using this power. You can regularly read in the papers some big corporation is decentralizing, but when you follow it for several years you see they merely intended to do so, but did not.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy