Brevity Quote by Henry Mintzberg

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in…

— Andy Grove

“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of…

— Christopher David Costanzo

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

— Eli Broad

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that…

— Jeff Bezos

“A manager’s ability to recognize when outcomes are inconsistent with goals and then modify designs and assemble people to rectify them makes all the…

— Ray Dalio

“a manager inhabits the most interpersonally complex role in a modern organization, in many ways more complex than the CEO role.”

— Jonathan Raymond

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do…

— John Ralston Saul

“In our studies of managers, we have found that the difference between those who take the initiative and those who do not becomes particularly…

— Harvard Business Review

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

— Warren G. Bennis

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the…

— Peter Drucker

You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he…

— Joe Girardi

“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,”

— Henry Mintzberg