Management Quotes - Page 14

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

There is a difficult transition in management from being the knowledgeable expert and the problem solver to becoming a process architect. The importance of good process in organizations is undervalued and people seldom get credited for putting good processes in place. It makes sense therefore that C-level executives don't want to delegate expertise and problem solving tasks which help them to "shine" and attract widespread recognition.

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

Management does not know what a system is.

There must be consistency in direction.

There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.

Management is prediction.

You can not hear what you do not understand.

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Priority is a function of context.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.