Management Quotes - Page 13

The first myth of management is that it exists.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

The moment has no time.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

He who gains time gains everything.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.