Management Quotes

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

~ Scott Adams

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

~ John Seddon

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

~ Richie Norton

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

~ Anne Enright

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

~ Agona Apell

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

~ Patrick O'brian

Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Any change holds an opportunity.

~ Daniel Egger

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

~ Heather Simmons

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way, who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

~ Heather Simmons

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

~ Heather Simmons

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

~ Orrin Woodward

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

~ Max Mckeown

people who says they are running out of time, I think they don't know how to manage tasks/work and to prioritize it.

~ Kurbhatt

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.

~ Jeffrey K. Liker

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

~ Robin S. Sharma

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

~ Max Mckeown

Be a worthy company and clients will come.

~ Amit Kalantri

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

~ Agona Apell

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Start with the end in mind.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Employers are like horses — they require management.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

~ Michael Crichton

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

~ Connie Willis

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

~ Mœbius

Remember the Golden Rule? Treat people as you would like to be treated. The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

~ Marcus Buckingham

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

~ Barbara Marciniak

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

~ Warren Buffett

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

~ Dick Grote

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

~ Vineet Nayar

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

~ Toba Beta

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is?

~ Daniel Prokop

That's why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness.And it was true, she realized. She didn't run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn't give orders just to make herself feel important. Well, at least she wouldn't anymore. No. The day before, she hadn't missed that part of her job at all. She had missed the baking. She had missed creating something for others to enjoy.And, oh, how she wanted to go back to work!

~ Gail Herman

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

~ Andrew S. Grove

Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

~ Andrew S. Grove

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness.

~ Andrew S. Grove