Top 43 Quotes About Top Management
#1. Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
Peter Drucker
#2. In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
Harold L. Vogel
#3. important components of the management system. It is the process by which top management reviews the effectiveness of the system and analyzes the performance of the organization.
Craig Cochran
#4. 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
#5. Top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people ...
Buck Rodgers
#6. One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.
Henrik Fisker
#7. The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Lee Iacocca
#8. One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#9. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
Warren G. Bennis
#10. Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Robert Townsend
#11. Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Peter Drucker
#12. The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
C. K. Prahalad
#13. The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel
#14. It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.
W. Edwards Deming
#15. The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
W. Edwards Deming
#16. In the Next Society's corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.
Peter F. Drucker
#17. What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
Peter Drucker
#18. The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
Kara Swisher
#19. Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.
James Hunter
#20. The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#21. Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.
Sarah Lacy
#22. You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.
Paul Stanley
#23. When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
Dorethia Conner Kelly
#24. I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.
Anthony Pratt
#26. There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.
Bill Maher
#27. What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. Edwards Deming
#28. Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.
Jason Jordan
#29. Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.
Jack Welch
#30. Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
Peter Diamandis
#31. With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
Pearl Zhu
#32. I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
Carlos Ghosn
#33. Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.
Alfred P. Sloan
#34. There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time ... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.
Richard Koch
#35. Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld
#36. the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.
Eric Ries
#37. To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
Douglas Conant
#38. If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#39. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
Harry S. Truman
#40. Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
Simon Sinek
#41. The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
Aaron Patzer
#42. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
#43. Top-down management is plan-based, hierarchical, and totalitarian. Bottom-up management is humane, consensual, and egalitarian. Effective
Philip Wik
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