Management Quotes - Page 12

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Time is the school in which we learn.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

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

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

We must satisfy our customers.

The transformation will come from leadership.

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

When we cooperate, everybody wins.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

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

We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.