83 Quotes About Management-theory

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.

Efficiency without Effectiveness misses the PurposeEffectiveness without Efficiency misses all the ProfitEffectiveness with Efficiency brings Performance.

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

One of the most significant management functions is control. Controls are usually directed by organization policies and procedures. They are based on the concept that people should have a thorough understanding of management expectations. And there should be consequences for noncompliance. Penalties for noncompliance are predicated upon the theory, that people will not behave if they have nothing to lose.