Quote by Mark Jeffery

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

— W. Edwards Deming

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

— Henry Mintzberg

“The trick is to take a phased approach to gradually build the capability in your organization, realizing results at each stage and developing an…

— Mark Jeffery

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword…

— James C. Collins

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear…

— Elon Musk

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

— Buck Rodgers

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open…

— Clayton M. Christensen

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

— Alexa Von Tobel

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

— John P. Kotter

“Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea”

— Stewart Friedman

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally…

— Frans van Houten

“Devising strategies to solve anticipated complexity of problems via strategic management and systemic approach is the heart of a good project design.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin - - Project Monitoring & Evaluation - A Primer