Management Quotes

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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's… — Peter Drucker
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more… — Peter Drucker
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first… — W. Edwards Deming
The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give… — George E. P. Box
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire… — Peter R. Scholtes
It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly. — John Tukey
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and… — Peter Drucker
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming
Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement… — Douglas McGregor
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow. — W. Edwards Deming
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term. — W. Edwards Deming
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock
Changes made by management today make no improvement. — Peter R. Scholtes
To copy is to invite disaster. — W. Edwards Deming
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we… — Russell L. Ackoff
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information — William Hunter
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to… — W. Edwards Deming
Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for… — W. Edwards Deming
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. — W. Edwards Deming

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