301 Quotes About Management-and-leadership

Right now, your company has 21st-century Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th-century management principles.

If you want excellence, you have to recognize and reward it. Period.

Indeed, Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Time management is the most important tool in management

If you are not surprising yourself, you are not growing.

Great results occur when great responsibility is given. Your job as a leader is to give responsibility NOT take responsibility.

In one study investigating employee experiences with speaking up, 85% of respondents reported at least one occasion when they felt unable to raise a concern with their bosses, even though they believed the issue was important.

We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad

Responsibility means an inevitable punishment for mistakes; authority means full power to make them.

It's impossible to change the management system without changing the managers who built it. The management is the product of people who created it.