Quotes About Managing

the basic metaphor of prototypes still seems apt to me. There are no answers or magic pills. There is no alternative to learning through experimentation. Benchmarking and studying "best practices" will not suffice—because the prototyping process does not involve just incremental changes in established ways of doing things, but radical new ideas and practices that together create a new way of managing.

That is why the discipline of managing mental models—surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works—promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

I ignored what was going on behind my back because that was the only way I could deal with it.

Rebecca is asserting her independence. Her thinking is simple and egocentric: "I can" or "I can't"; "I will" or "I won't." Independence is about managing one's self. Autonomy is a much broader, tougher, and more complex task than independence. It weaves together advanced thinking, self-reliance, self-regulation, intimacy, and connection. Autonomy is the capacity to be both independent and connected to others.

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I said 'I careered off the road.'

When I started at my first church," Tom went on, "I was on fire with everything I wanted to do. I moved in, opened my office door, and one by one each staff person and maybe half the members came in and complained about everyone else. I called my mentor and said, 'I can't take it! I have ideas! I want to get to work, not be a wailing wall!' And he said, 'This is your work. Listening to people. Managing people.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had told me often enough, since I sure had a talent for enraging them.