Quotes about Management

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

It begins with this idea: Your company is a product. Yes, the things you make are products (or services), but your company is the thing that makes those things. That's why your company should be your best product.

You can't credibly promote the virtues of reasonable hours, plentiful rest, and a healthy lifestyle to employees if you're doing the opposite as the boss.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.

Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.

Start a business, not a startup.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over. Keep breaking your time frames down into

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Anxiety asks for more information so it can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. It also asks for more information so it can manage the world apart from God.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.