Function Quote by Tom DeMarco Download Open image “The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.” — Tom DeMarco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Inspirational Management People Working it
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them. — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
“To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among… — Sophie L. Rose Copy Share Image
“More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it’s okay sometimes not to answer their phones,… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies (“My people are too dumb to build systems without them” ) and technical interference by… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The need for uniformity is a sign of insecurity on the part of management. Strong managers don’t care when team members cut their hair… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“If you’ve got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image