Management And Leadership Quotes

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

~ Jay Samit

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

~ Jay Samit

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

~ Jay Samit

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

~ Jay Samit

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

~ Jay Samit

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

~ Jay Samit

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

~ Jay Samit

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

~ Jay Samit

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

~ Jay Samit

Security doesn't rob ambition, the illusion of security robs ambition.

~ Jay Samit

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

~ Jay Samit

All Disruption starts with introspection.

~ Jay Samit

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

~ Jay Samit

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

~ Jay Samit

Give today to get better tomorrow.

~ Ashish Patel

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

~ Mark W. Boyer

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

~ Bill Jensen

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

~ Kent Alan Robinson

If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

~ Jason Langella

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

~ Omer Soker

The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

~ Omer Soker

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

~ Omer Soker

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

~ Omer Soker

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

~ Pearl Zhu

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

~ Sue Tetzlaff

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

~ Dorethia Conner Kelly

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders.--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

~ Daniel H. Pink

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

~ Anna Stevens

Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

~ Anna Stevens

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

~ Max Mckeown

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

~ Pearl Zhu

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessary.

~ Tarja Moles

whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Leadership is service, not position.

~ Tim Fargo

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

~ Jay Samit

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

~ James Macdonald

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

All decisions are taken two levels above the highest level of understanding

~ David K. Brown