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Management Quotes by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably…
- Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father…
- Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Nostalgia is a seductive liar. — George Ball
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr
- The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. — Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
- Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
- Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate