Quotes about Management

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Delegation—either to time or to other people.… Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and for organizations.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.