Quotes about Management

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

We invited HP executives to participate in the management and in the board. HCL had this concept of corporate officers since inception in 1999. We had a remuneration committee. Now everyone is talking about nomination and remuneration committee. We had this from 1999.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

You are responsible for allocating your life.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

I am fortunate to be on board with one of India's top sports management group.

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards.

Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."74

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.