Managers Quotes
359 quotes by 281 authors
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Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.
— Tim Brady
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
— Jack Welch
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Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic…
— Robert I. Sutton
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If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come…
— Mark McCormack
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he…
— Earl Weaver
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The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us
— Larry Burkett
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Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to…
— Margaret Carlson
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Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we…
— Dov Frohman
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Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior…
— Max McKeown
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Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a…
— Abraham Zaleznik
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What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.
— Peter Cundill
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Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you…
— Noam Chomsky
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We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack…
— Warren Buffett
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
— Seth Godin
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Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They…
— Judi Evans
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The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define…
— Marcus Buckingham
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Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary…
— William Redington Hewlett
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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
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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
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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…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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