Quotes About Management

Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one

I'm a Guild Boss, remember? I have no sense of humor.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies.

Managers who can give them some security, along with some nurturance, may well find themselves with the hardest-working group of young people to come along in a decade or even two.

holding directorships;

We need to move from a culture focused on monitoring the worker's presence to a culture focused on the results.

Management essentials in the ICU: FASTHUG F=feeding. A=analgesia. S=sedation. T=thrombo-embolism prophylaxis. H=head of the bed elevated (30–45°). U=ulcer prophylaxis (PPI or H2 antagonists). G=glucose control.

Although specific treatments for ALI/ARDS have been slow to emerge, the recent development of new strategies for mechanical ventilation that improve mortality, and fluid management strategies that reduce the length of mechanical ventilation, emphasizes the importance of identifying and appropriately treating all patients with ALI/ARDS. Although this point would seem to be straightforward, in practice, ALI/ARDS remains largely underdiagnosed,

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

Mike Kelleher from Obama's Senate office was the person who stepped up to tackle the mess… He built the staff, drew up a ten-page strategic plan for the mail-room, wrote algorithms for a mail coding system, set up a casework decision tree, assembled a library of policy-response letters, and developed quality-control manuals.

Good thing you're tagging all those "Low Priority" tasks. God forbid you'd ever lose track of shit that's not worth doing.

That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

And so diversity remains a premonition of racial apocalypse; a photo op and dash; a commodity conveying value; a marker of moral credibility, even fitness in the Darwinian sense; a term of corporate management; an offering of racial innocence and absolution; a refusal of protection to historically negated communities of color; a performance for entertainment or edification or exploitation; another boring lesson in tolerance and civility; a mark of Otherness.

Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.

If you don't have money handled, you don't live free.

But the alternative is the "HiPPO" method — the "highest paid person's opinion." That one sucks worse.

Use the goal-level concept to help you aggregate small tasks or decompose large tasks.

When employers designate certain jobs "professional" and insist that employees have professional training – not just the technical skills that seem sufficient to do the work – they must have more in mind than efficiency. Hierarchical organizations need professionals, because through professionals those at the top control the political content of what is produced, and because professionals contribute to the bosses' control of the workforce itself.

The fish rots from the head." Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.

What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks," says Jonah.

utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a machine; it runs whether or not there is any benefit to be derived from the work it's doing.

The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it's focused on increasing throughput.