Developing Quote by Mary Parker Follett

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men…

— Frederick W. Smith

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

— Tom DeMarco

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Tom DeMarco

You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he…

— Jerry Reinsdorf

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

— Douglas Mawson

The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management…

— Peter Drucker

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

— Peter Drucker

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

— Frank Robinson

A controlling boss is in control of his staff but in control of himself

— Robert D Dangoor

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

— Eli Broad