Robert Heller Quotes

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

  Robert Heller

  Love, Inspirational, Education

  Robert Heller (1984). “The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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• Effective management always means asking the right question.

  Robert Heller

  Mean, Risk, Asking

  Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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.

  Robert Heller

  Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration

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

  Robert Heller

  Work, Skills, Boss

  "The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice". Book by Jonathon Green, p. 92, 1984.

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

  Robert Heller

  Business, Way, Losing

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

  Robert Heller

  Business, Thinking, Think Before You Act

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• Cash in must exceed cash out.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Cash, Exceed

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

  Robert Heller

  Attitude, Going For It, Failing

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

  Robert Heller

  Differences, Choices, Administration

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

  Robert Heller

  People, Want, Ability

  Robert Heller (1984). “The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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• 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.

  Robert Heller

  Want, Way, Management

  Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

  Robert Heller

  Jobs, Business, Executives

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

  Robert Heller

  Successful, Innovation, Passionate

  "Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas" by Robert Heller in his blog "Thinking Managers", June 30, 2009.

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• 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.

  Robert Heller

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

  "The Decision Makers". Book by Robert Heller, ch. 5. "The Innovators", 1989.

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• 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.

  Robert Heller

  Lying, Creativity, Innovation

  "The Decision Makers". Book by Robert Heller, 1989.

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• Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

  Robert Heller

  Running, Two, Cooking

  "The Naked Manager". Book by Robert Heller, p. 12, 1972.

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• The first myth of management is that it exists.

  Robert Heller

  Boss, Firsts, Management

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• 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.

  Robert Heller

  Information, Enormous, Booze

  "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.

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• 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

  Answers, Facts, Management

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• All good management is the expression of one great idea

  Robert Heller

  Business, Expression, Ideas

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• No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Effort, Prove

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• Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Organization, Needs

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

  Robert Heller

  Business, Ifs

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• If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Impossible, Failing

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

  Robert Heller

  Business, Action, Sophisticated

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