1,053 Quotes About Management

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

Execution strategies: do / buy / delegate / forget.

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.

Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of values, it will serve as a worthy guide to the management of your sexual energy: Strong desire is like a river. As long as it flows within the banks of God’s will—be the current strong or weak—all is well. But when it overruns those boundaries and seeks its own channels, then disaster lurks in the rampage below.

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.