Managers Quotes - Page 38

• The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

  Anthea Turner

  Trying, Firsts, Management

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• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Management, Function, Greater

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Fighting, Today, Management

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

  Shawn Achor

  Leadership, Motivation, Skills

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• Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, People, Empowerment

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Simply Managing: What Managers Do — and Can Do Better”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people -- not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Thinking, People, Tree

  Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

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• Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

  John Kruk

  Conferences, Manage, Presses

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• And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Believe, Responsibility, Kind

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• It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers

  Fred Brooks

  Jobs, Data, Defense

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• There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future

  Howard Wilkinson

  Two, Type

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Good Man, Sometimes

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

  Graeme Souness

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jobs, Done, Benefits

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.28, Multnomah

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• I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so eager to see it, like it was Christmas morning. When he got to the ticket booth it turned out there was only one ticket left; the manager was there and wanted to give it to me instead since I was famous. That's when I knew I'd hit it big.

  Zach Braff

  Morning, Boys, Giving

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• I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.

  Serge Savard

  Team, Player, Eight

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• You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.

  Joe Girardi

  Ideas, Expectations, Personality

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• Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

  Shona Brown

  Planning, Timing, Plans

  "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.

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• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  Laozi

  Peace, Struggle, Successful

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• Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind that comes through private ownership and control, which is an *extremely* rigid system of domination - people have to... people can survive, by renting themselves to it, and basically in no other way... I do disagree with them *very* sharply, and I think that they are not..understanding the *fundamental* doctrine, that you should be free from domination and control, including the control of the manager and the owner.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Donahue/Pozner", February 14, 1992.

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• In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, People, Energy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  P. T. Barnum

  Thinking, Class, Giving

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