Management Quotes - Page 9

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

Good money management alone isn't going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn't any good, you're still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

We must understand variation.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management