Management Quote by Marcus Buckingham

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

— Brian Tracy

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

— Stan Slap

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

“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 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

“You can shift the odds in your favor by differentiating yourself from others, because a good strategy seeks uniqueness. Rather than a plan, a…

— Stephen Bungay

“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

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

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

“The key to better management in that case becomes to inspire your people, to trust them to do the right thing, and then get…

— BusinessNews Publishing

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the…

— John Schnatter

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.

— Tom DeMarco