Consistent Quote by Marcus Buckingham

“Poor performance is rarely because the person is incompetent or a bad person. It’s typically a result of a gap in skill (which is…

— Laszlo Bock

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary,…

— Henry Mintzberg

It's not always the fault of the manager when a player is not performing well, I can tell you.

— Louis van Gaal

“A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat…

— Miya Yamanouchi

“Poor leadership” is a major cause of job dissatisfaction and low morale. More than half of those with low morale rated the leadership at…

— Michael Farmer

“Good managers succeed because of, not in spite of, their teams and raise their game by raising the game of the whole team, not…

— Tim Phillips

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Unjust responses to failure are almost never the result of bad performance. They are the result of bad relationships.”

— Sidney Dekker

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things…

— Terry Francona

Every manager, when things don't go well, they feel bad about it. That, unfortunately, is our job.

— Gianfranco Zola

One of the things that is most difficult for a manager is reversing bad results and keeping going.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

“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