Top 100 Quotes About Management
#1. Metric is part of transparent visual management allowing pulling.
Pearl Zhu
#2. Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
Kenny Dalglish
#3. Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
Barry Boehm
#4. The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
John Conyers
#5. China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.
George Soros
#6. State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
Benito Mussolini
#8. When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.
Krysten Ritter
#9. Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
Alex Ferguson
#10. There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.
Laszlo Bock
#11. The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.
Peter Block
#12. A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Frederick W. Smith
#13. Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.
Glen Cook
#14. Teach a child stress management and how to deal with his anger from very young and you will have one very successful child.
Timothy Pina
#15. Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.
Jim Clemmer
#16. No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.
Jill Briscoe
#17. Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
Carol Loomis
#18. 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.
Robert Heller
#19. The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
Jill Abramson
#20. Faint and not so pleasant. "Okay," I said. "It's the pantry. Neat and fully stocked. You get an A in supply management, if there is such a thing." "What do you smell?" "Spices, mostly. Coffee. Maybe air freshener, too, I'm not sure.
Stephen King
#21. A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills.
Ron Suskind
#22. You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.
David Cottrell
#23. Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton Christensen
#24. Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#26. In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.
Matthew Stewart
#27. The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth
#28. It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.
Patricia C. Wrede
#29. Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.
Alan Shearer
#30. It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.
Joseph M. Juran
#31. Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.
Connie Willis
#32. We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#33. All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.
Masaaki Imai
#34. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
#35. There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
Amanda Marshall
#36. I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.
Matt Mickiewicz
#37. I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
Carol Bartz
#38. I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
Queen Latifah
#39. And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
Steve Case
#40. I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
#41. Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#42. The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
George Horace Lorimer
#43. I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.
Daniella Alonso
#44. And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind.
[Thorn]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.
Kevin Allen
#46. The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#47. The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality
Abel Aganbegyan
#48. Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
William L. McKnight
#49. When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
Stephen R. Covey
#50. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Colin Powell
#51. To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
Vladimir Potanin
#52. Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
George Will
#53. One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.
Tulsi Tanti
#54. Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
Lee Iacocca
#55. Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson
#56. The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
Harold Geneen
#57. Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.
John C. Maxwell
#58. The team exists to accomplish a result. The community exists to support its members while they fulfill their purpose ... When partnerships, management teams, and organizations build communities, they tap into a greater and deeper reservoir of courage, wisdom, and productivity.
Peter Gibb
#59. It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.
Richard P. Feynman
#60. They swore at airport management, at the TSA, at the airlines, at their useless phones, furious because fury was the last defense against understanding what the news stations were reporting.
Emily St. John Mandel
#61. If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.
Peter Senge
#62. Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
Kim Fields
#63. 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
#64. Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
Peter Diamandis
#65. Change Management = The human side of change.
Pearl Zhu
#66. You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
Bill Joy
#67. Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
Russel Honore
#68. It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
Ivanka Trump
#69. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
#70. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
Steven Sinofsky
#71. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#72. Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team.
Ross Levinsohn
#73. Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.
Stewart Liff
#74. What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
#75. These two principles correspond to the two areas of effectiveness that we've encountered: personal leadership and personal management. "Know what's most important" is the arena of personal leadership; "put it first and actually do it" is the arena of personal management.
Matt Perman
#76. Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.
Kim Harrison
#77. [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.
Ha-Joon Chang
#78. Management is 5% instruction and 95% communication.
Jurgen Appelo
#79. It's not about how easy or hard they are to manage. It's about keeping out people who require management. I prefer a drama-free existence.
Chloe Neill
#80. The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management
Eric S. Raymond
#81. The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies ("My people are too dumb to build systems without them" ) and technical interference by the manager. Both are doomed to fail in the long run.
Tom DeMarco
#82. You are not your grade; you are better than that. Grades are indicators of time management and a rate of success.
Anonymous
#83. Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
Jonathan Swift
#84. Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Edward Kennedy
#85. There's no such thing as knowledge management;
there are only knowledgeable people.
Information only becomes knowledge
in the hands of someone
who knows what to do with it.
Peter Drucker
#87. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.
Dan Lyons
#88. When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.
Peter Drucker
#89. In return for the service and to cover the annual cost for fund management and other expenses, the mutual fund levies fund management charges (FMC). The FMC levied varies across schemes from around 0.75% to 2.50% (the
Vinod Pottayil
#90. Good interviewers share three features. They . . . obtain the greatest amount of accurate information relevant to diagnosis and management, in the shortest period of time, consistent with creating and maintaining a good working relationship (rapport) with the patient.
James Morrison
#91. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
Anthony Noto
#92. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.
James Fallows
#93. Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.
Robert S. Kaplan
#94. If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
Jonathan Dee
#95. The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'
Michael LeBoeuf
#96. So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!
Natsuki Takaya
#97. I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
Sara Bareilles
#98. A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.
Pearl Zhu
#99. Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing?
Eric Maisel
#100. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
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