Management Systems Quotes:

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

- Jay Watson

topic: Quality, Management, Management Systems

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Business, Process, Top Management, Systems And Processes, Quality In Business

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

- Hyman Rickover

source: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

topic: Organization, People, Done, Management Systems

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

- George E. P. Box

topic: Cynical, Empowerment, Management, Management Systems

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

- Jill Shalvis

topic: Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management, Man In The Moon, Recording Studio

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

- Chuck Noll

source: Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books

topic: Basketball, Coaching, Pressure, Top Management, Man In The Moon

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

- Paul Stanley

topic: Top Management, Man In The Moon, Recording Studio, It's A Wonderful Life, Living In A Small Town

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Matter, Management, Lows, Money Management, Management Systems

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

- Hyman Rickover

source: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

topic: Jobs, Attitude, Organization, Management Systems

For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Ambition, School, Training, Management Systems

Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

- Elliot Morley

topic: Business, Support, Friendly, Easy Access, Environmentally Friendly

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

- George Packer

source: "Telling Stories About the Future of Journalism" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

topic: Self Confidence, Age, Jargon, Lack Of Self Confidence, Management Systems

I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.

- Danielle LaPorte

source: "Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mean, Play, Focus, Management Systems

JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.

- Jamie Dimon

source: "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

topic: Moving, Commercial Banks, Retail, Management Systems

In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.

- Dan Gillmor

topic: Issues, Keys, Effort, Vendors, Warehouse

The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

- Tom Peters

source: Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

topic: Reading, Names, Chinese, Brand Names, Management Systems

EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.

- Jim Frey

topic: Strong, Data, Class, Combining, Complementary

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Fall, Technology, Airports, Contending, Airport Security

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

- Andrew Weil

source: "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

topic: Simple, Years, America, Healthy Living, Alternative Medicine