27 Quotes About Managing

Stop trying to control people. Let em be free.The tighter the strangle, the bigger the struggle.Lighten your grip. Let them breathe.People who are suffocating at the hands of would-be do-gooders don’t get better, they get bitter...and run.

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.

Having an understanding of the 'why' will help with having an understanding of the 'how'.

A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

The scripture talks about man managing, ruling the earth, as the sole duty of man.

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.

In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.

Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.

A farmer's work in many ways is like setting a stage. In theater, stage managers lay out furniture and props, set up lights, and clean to get a set ready for actors to take over and create a show. Farmers plow, fertilize, set up irrigation systems and fences, and otherwise prep the stage of their farms for the real actors -- the sun and the life within the seeds and animals -- to create the show.