Management Quotes - Page 3

• Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.

  Katherine Tate

  Football, Games, Play

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• All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

  Walter Wriston

  Risk, Life Is, Elimination

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Bias

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• 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

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

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• 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

  Top Management, People, Guy

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• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• 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, Fit

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• Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

  Russel Honore

  Goal, Vision, Objectives

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• Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

  Charles Handy

  Children, Learning, School

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• When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.

  Thomas Dreier

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Time, Work, Few Words

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• The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Priorities In Life, Enemy

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.191, Mango Media Inc.

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• Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

  Dean Kamen

  Organization, Innovation, Needs

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• If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Cybernetics, Profession, Ifs

  "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.

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• Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Policy Making, Decision, Intellectual

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 10), 1968.

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• Making more money will not
  solve your problems if cash flow
  management is your problem.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Cash Flow, Problem, More Money

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• There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

  Rory Vaden

  Self, Time Management, Self Management

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.25, Penguin

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• The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

  Phil Donahue

  People, Want, Bonus

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• A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.

  Seth Klarman

  Simple, Company, Ifs

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• The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Real, Believe

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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  Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Business, Stimulus And Response

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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