Management Quotes

1370 Management quotes by 884 unique authors

Management must manage! — Harold Geneen
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting… — Harriet Rubin
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating… — Richard Pascale
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often… — Richard Pascale
Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge. — Richard Pascale
The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to… — Richard Pascale
Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they… — Richard Pascale
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not… — Richard Pascale
Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the… — Richard Pascale
Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows… — Meek Mill
Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. — Red Ruffing
In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a… — Jim Rohn
Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people. — Brian Tracy
Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan. — Brian Tracy
Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done. — Brian Tracy
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. — Clay Shirky
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally… — Karl E. Weick
I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400… — Joe Montana
One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have… — David Rockefeller
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other… — John Taylor Gatto
I head a nation of a million presidents. — Chaim Weizmann
The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful… — Richard V. Allen
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side. — Bernard Arnault
I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean,… — James Belushi
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do,… — Michelle Bachelet

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