Management Quotes - Page 30

• ...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

  Jim Craig

  Business, Organization, Needs

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• As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Important, Economics

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• Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

  Octavius Black

  Business, People, Achievement

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Business, Years

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• Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

  Katsuaki Watanabe

  Business, Mean, Progress

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• It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

  Phil Harding

  Business, Economics, Accepting

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• Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Work, People

  "The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Believe, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

  Henry Ford

  Business, Believe, Perfection

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• It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

  Dave Allen

  Business, People, Behaviour

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• We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

  Richard Branson

  Business, People, Good Times

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• Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

  Nigel Crouch

  Business, Mean, Economics

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• A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

  Warren G. Bennis

  Business, Passion, Understanding

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• Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

  Warren G. Bennis

  Business, Leader, Different

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• Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

  John P. Kotter

  Business, Economics, Produce

  John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

  Chester Barnard

  Art, Business, Use

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• What you manage in business is people

  Harold Geneen

  Business, People, Economics

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• It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

  Tim O'Reilly

  Business, Discipline, Economics

  "TIP OF THE DAY: Get People to Hold You Accountable". www.businessinsider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• People work in the system. Management creates the system

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Work, People

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• The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

  Carlos Ghosn

  Business, People, Giving

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• In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

  Ron Dennis

  Business, Team, Simple

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• The enemy of stability can be complacency

  Ross Brawn

  Business, Enemy, Complacency

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• Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

  John Bright

  Business, People, Training

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Business, Data, Needs

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• It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Economics, Standing Out

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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