Management Quotes - Page 20

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

There is no business on a dead planet

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

The survival of love depends on the management of change.

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

We want best efforts guided by theory.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.