Colin Powell Quotes About Management

Quotes about: Management

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

• Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

  Colin Powell

  Inspiring, Leadership, Art

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Fads, Management

• Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Titles, Fancy

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

• I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Leader, Links

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

  Colin Powell

  Past, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

  Colin Powell

  Art, Management, Trapped

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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