Management Quote by Michael Farmer

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with…

— Walter Kiechel

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered…

— Carlos Ghosn

Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.

— William Wyler

You can always tell that an organization is on the skids when it changes its name, and pays a lot of money for consultants…

— Anonymous

The breadth and scale of the capabilities we provide end-to-end across strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations are absolutely unique in the marketplace. And…

— Pierre Nanterme

The broad range of services we provide across our five businesses, together with our deep industry expertise, continues to differentiate Accenture, and we remain…

— Pierre Nanterme

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on…

— Peter Drucker

To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that…

— Tom Peters

“The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as they consider…

— Pearl Zhu

Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

— Patrick Lencioni

“Directors and management need to spearhead the strategy shift from transactions to relationships and create the culture, structure, and incentives necessary to execute the…

— Harvard Business School Press

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being…

— Mitt Romney