Belief Quote by Harold Geneen

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

— Harold S. Geneen

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

— Denis Diderot

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if…

— Stephen Covey

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and…

— Karl E. Weick

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

— Peter Drucker

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for…

— Barbara Marciniak

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would…

— Jean Giraudoux

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the…

— Robert Heller

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

— Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

— Peter Drucker

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

— Lee Iacocca