Quotes about Management
Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.
— Brian Tracy
It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.
— Brian Tracy
Capitalism must be kept alive by non-capitalist methods.
— Hilaire Belloc
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
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works
— Barack Obama
We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
— Barack Obama
As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure—and a failure on my part to put those who worked under me in a position to succeed.
— Barack Obama
In other words, if you wanted good government, then expertise mattered. You needed public institutions stocked with people whose job it was to pay attention to important stuff so the rest of us citizens didn't have to.
— Barack Obama
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out
— Stephen Covey
The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.
— Stephen Covey
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No
— Stephen Covey
But is it possible that under that apparently disloyal behavior, these employees question whether I really act in their best interest? Do they feel like I'm treating them as mechanical objects? Is there some truth to that?
— Stephen Covey