Management Quotes - Page 21

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Is management candid with the shareholders?

All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.

Is management rational?

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with the critical concepts behind strategy. The history of strategy suggests there are lots of things consultants can do for a company that the company can't typically do for itself.

It's management's job to know.

Without theory we can only copy.

You do not install knowledge.

We are here for an education.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live