Analysis Quote by Russell L. Ackoff

“Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.”

— Donella H. Meadows

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

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

— Lee Bolman

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a…

— Andy Stanley

“In our studies of managers, we have found that the difference between those who take the initiative and those who do not becomes particularly…

— Harvard Business Review

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

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for…

— Barbara Marciniak

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

— Mary Parker Follett

Sometimes the manager actually is the glue that holds everything together, and when you take that manager out, sometimes that's when things start to…

— Mark Hughes

“Understand the differences between managing, micromanaging, and not managing.”

— Ray Dalio

“Managers need to focus on people, not just tasks. They need to rely on others, not just be self-reliant. Managers are also team-oriented and…

— Loren B. Belker

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose to call…

— Russell L. Ackoff