Constraints Quote by Karl E. Weick

“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

“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 about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Anonymous

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

— Brian Tracy

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

— Reed Hastings

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems…

— Russell L. Ackoff

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they…

— Henry Mintzberg

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

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

— Anonymous

“So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that…

— Marcus Buckingham

“I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and…

— Ed Catmull

Sometimes the manager actually is the glue that holds everything together, and when you take that manager out, sometimes that's when things start to…

— Mark Hughes