Management Quotes - Page 5

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

Quality starts in the boardroom.

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.

What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.