Quotes about Management

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.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.