Management Theory Quotes

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

~ Jay Samit

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

~ Jay Samit

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

~ Jay Samit

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

~ Jay Samit

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

~ Jay Samit

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

~ Jay Samit

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

~ Jay Samit

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

~ Jay Samit

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

~ Jay Samit

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

~ Jay Samit

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

~ Jay Samit

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

~ Jay Samit

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

~ Jay Samit

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

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

~ William L. Mcknight

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

~ Ryan Lilly

Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.

~ Steven Redhead

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

~ Jay Samit

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort you put into scoring against your opponents, and defense is the effort you apply to stop them from scoring against you. Those who suggest that a little healthy competition can't hurt are thinking only of the offense part....The offense component of internal competition is problematic, but the defense component is always injurious. When peer managers play defense against each other (try to stop each other from scoring), they are engaging in anticooperation.

~ Tom Demarco

There is no such thing as healthy competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

~ Tom Demarco