1,053 Quotes About Management

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates

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.

inspect what you expect

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.