Cynical Quote by George E. P. Box

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

— Henry Mintzberg

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to…

— Frances Hesselbein

Cynicism is the motivator of today's world, kindness is the reality of yesterday's world, empowerment is our de faux of tomorrows world.

— Jasmina Siderovski

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

— Tom Peters

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

— Stan Slap

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

— Henry Mintzberg

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles…

— Dee Hock

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like…

— Leonard L. Berry

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative…

— Frances Hesselbein

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

— Jim Rohn

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

— Lee Iacocca

When employees don't really care about the work they do and they take no pride in being in the specific organization where they work,…

— Judith M Bardwick