Quotes About Management Theory

#1. I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.

Clayton Christensen

#2. I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

Maurice Flanagan

#3. At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Matthew Stewart

#4. 20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Ryan Lilly

#5. The grief that was so strong it shook like continental shifts, dividing what was now from what was, forcing me to acknowledge that I was going to have to build a life on foreign soil.

Jessica Gadziala

#6. Your reputation is like a shadow, following you wherever you go.

Frank Sonnenberg

#7. Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Andrew Lo

#8. The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

John Frohnmayer

#9. There is no knowledge without theory.

W. Edwards Deming

#10. Without theory we can only copy.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. A good orgasm was in the details.

Sara Jane Stone

#12. We want best efforts guided by theory.

W. Edwards Deming

#13. The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

Warren Bennis

#14. I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#15. It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Abraham H. Maslow

#16. What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?

Deyth Banger

#17. When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.

Widad Akreyi

#18. 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

#19. We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

David Platt

#20. The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

Bernard Lewis

#21. We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

Michael Kumhof

#23. A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

Malcolm Knowles

#24. Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.

Steven Redhead

#25. Theory of Evolution (Summary)
First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management.

Scott Adams

#26. A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

W. Edwards Deming

#27. A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#28. He can't die! He's the bloody King of Winter."
"Don't be absurd," said Bob, rolling an eye at the wounded Janus. "Just because he's immortal doesn't mean he can't die!

Lesley Livingston

#29. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Nicholas Kristof

#30. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...

Sandhya Jane

#31. Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#32. In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

Harry Markowitz

#33. What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.

Bruno Latour

#34. The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

Chogyam Trungpa

#35. I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#36. Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

W. Edwards Deming