Quotes About Supervision

And I want you to know, Max said kindly to him, I don't hold you in any way responsible. Lysander frowned. For what? For sending me an assistant who wanted to take over New York with the help of a virgin-raping,mundane-eating demon. Lysander stiffened. I am not 'in any way responsible' for that! You did authorize the assignment, I reminded him. Well, I— I— Lysander cleared his throat. The decision was made at headquarters. All I did was sign the standard paperwork.

Dolph didn't ask for your opinion unless he was prepared to act upon it. He was a good boss.

I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

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What Oxford gave me was time,,,I was supervised by someone whose passion for the subject, his care for his pupils and his moral rigour I have never forgotten and whose example has stayed with me all my life.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

Who watches the watchmen?

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.

He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

To become somebody,first you need to be under somebodie's supervision.

The single most important task of a manager is to elicit peak performance from his subordinates. So if two things limit high output, a manager has two ways to tackle the issue: through training and motivation.

In general, meddling stems from a supervisor exploiting too much superior work knowledge (real or imagined). The negative leverage produced comes from the fact that after being exposed to many such instances, the subordinate will begin to take a much more restricted view of what is expected of him, showing less initiative in solving his own problems and referring them instead to his supervisor.

The output of a manager is the output of the organizational units under his or her supervision or influence

As a rule of thumb, a manager whose work is largely supervisory should have six to eight subordinates; three or four are too few and ten are too many. This range comes from a guideline that a manager should allocate about a half day per week to each of his subordinates.

the key definition here is that the output of a manager is a result achieved by a group either under her supervision or under her influence. While the manager's own work is clearly very important, that in itself does not create output. Her organization does.

as you review a manager, should you be judging his performance or the performance of the group under his supervision? You should be doing both. Ultimately what you are after is the performance of the group, but the manager is there to add value in some way.

As a supervisor, you have to be very sensitive toward the various money needs of your subordinates and show empathy toward them. You must be especially careful not to project your own circumstances onto others.

Troops! Call out the troops!' shouted another miner, shooing away children who–as is the immemorial custom of all the world's children–had appeared from nowhere to watch and get in the way.

Little Lloyd, what in the world are you watching?" He was sitting there, his eyes glued to the screen where a half-naked girl was performing calisthenics to something that passed for music. "Britney Spears," he said.