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Management Quotes - Page 15

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.1

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

“WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press

Management must manage!

"Managing" by Harold Geneen, Geneen and Moscow, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1985.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

"The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare (1813). “King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V”, p.49

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press