Quotes About Supervision

Pretty young wards in Chancery.

This is a camp. For children. Which means we have a duty of care. I'm responsible for every single person on these grounds. No strangers around the kids. No people kayaking at night on the lake.

There's more monitoring now. Kids don't play unsupervised. Everyone has a phone. Back then, even little kids went out to play on their own, sometimes all day. Kids rode their bikes all around town. I was considered a hardass for doing spot bed checks and having a lot of rules. So people in town were very good to me after it happened

Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.

Chloe. She, Judy-Moody-not-Stink, was in charge of piles and piles of money and got to dish

Do not let anyone else run your business, unless (1) you can supervise his performance with adequate care and comprehension or (2) you have unusually strong reasons for placing implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father. Galatians 4:2

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

But in all cases when you have problems in your interactions with your boss, there's one more question you have to ask yourself: To what extent is your boss at fault, and to what extent are you a neophyte about supervisor-subordinate relationships?

I don't interfere with regulators.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

didn't understand the role of the boss. I had to learn the difference between a mistake, which I can live with, and haphazard conduct. Backing into a pole is a mistake. A crooked label is a sign of carelessness.

Know the extent of your authority and exercise it. Establish and maintain authority.

At the end of the day, the information is packaged and a report will be e-mailed to you. It will show you everything—every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. If Adam does a PowerPoint or creates a Word document, it will show you that too. Everything. You could watch him live-time if you want.

Burton and Crimstein had a total caste system with one ruling entity. There were senior partners, sure, but Hester Crimstein would not allow any of them to add their name to the masthead. Tia

He must have smart, well-trained people to run day-to-day activities. He must check up on them and make sure the job is getting done while he stacks the deck for future success.

An outfit does well the things the boss checks up on.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.