Robert Heller Quotes

#1. Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

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#2. The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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#3. Effective management always means asking the right question.

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#4. No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

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#5. Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

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#6. Fear is excitement without breath.

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#7. In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

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#8. Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

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#9. Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

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#10. If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

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#11. The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

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#12. Think before you act: it's not your money.

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#13. No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

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#14. If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

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#15. The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

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#16. Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

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#17. Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

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#18. If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

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#19. Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

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#20. Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

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#21. No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

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#22. Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

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#23. All good management is the expression of one great idea

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