Management Quotes

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Be candid with everyone.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Manage the cause, not the result.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

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.

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

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.