Hazards Quote by Henry Mintzberg Download Open image “The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.” — Henry Mintzberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hazards Management Managers Occupational hazards Prime Superficiality
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
As a manager, you can only worry about those who can get on the bus, and those are the fit ones. Injuries and illnesses… — Phil Neville Copy Share Image
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Managers are doing jobs they normally wouldn't do like housekeeping, working in the laundry and in the kitchen. — Jerry Hoganson Copy Share Image
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. — H S M Burns Copy Share Image
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
A manager's job is really tough - you have so little time, but so much to do. — Lee Hye-ri Copy Share Image
The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It’s natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,” — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager’s special… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not… — G.A. Henty Copy Share Image
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window… — Pat Cooper Copy Share Image
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
