Quotes about Management

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

Jack Welch of GE introduced many to his description of four types of employees based on their contribution to organizational goals and their alignment to corporate values:12 Delivers on commitments/shares our values—upward and onward Misses commitments/shares our values—second chance Does not meet commitments/does not share our values—out Delivers on commitments/does not share our values—this call demands managerial courage and for Welch, that answer is out!

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose