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Management Quotes:

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Yale, League, Management

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Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

- Adrian Slywotzky

source: "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

topic: Risk, Information, Management, Risk Management

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

source: "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.

topic: Thinking, Management, Company

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

topic: Japan, Management, Concern, Amenities

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Management, Stakes

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Class, Lessons, Management

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

- Alcee Hastings

topic: Responsibility, Government, Management

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Change, Management, Easier, Change Management, Project Management

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Inspirational, Management, Despise, Bureaucrats

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

- Amanda Marshall

topic: Careers, Band, Management

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

- Amanda Ripley

source: Amanda Ripley (2009). “The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why”, p.63, Random House

topic: Risk, Events, Management

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

topic: Succeed, Management, Difficult, Time For A Change

Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.

- Andrew Dobson

topic: Time Management, Management, Time Passes

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

topic: Risk, Management, Investment, Probability Theory

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

topic: Art, Business, Management

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

- Anthea Turner

topic: Trying, Firsts, Management, Delegation

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.

topic: Management, Process, Results

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.

topic: Cybernetics, Management, Profession

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 117), 1968.

topic: Organization, People, Management

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Law, Time Management, Management

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Artist, America, Management, Ominous

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Library, Management, Volume

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

- Aubrey Daniels

topic: Fads, Management, Behavior, Trendy

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

- Avinash Persaud

topic: Risk, Management, Assumption, Participants

Good environmentalism is good economics

- Barber Conable

source: Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

topic: Business, Management, Economics

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

topic: Teamwork, Cost, Management, Mismanagement, Software Development

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

topic: Business, Opportunity, Management

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

topic: Golf, Management, Talent

He who gains time gains everything.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Gains, Time Management, Management

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Creative, Sides, Management

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Design, Creative, Management, Be Inspired

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

topic: Technology, Management, Problem

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

topic: People, Matter, Management

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

topic: Design, Done, Management

Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management

topic: Needs, Management, Newcastle

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

- Brian Epstein

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Management, Wells

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

topic: Humorous, Management, Deviation

Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest

- Brooks Johnson

topic: Stress, Training, Management, Stress Management

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

topic: People, Management, Should

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Management, Function

I head a nation of a million presidents.

- Chaim Weizmann

topic: President, Management

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their livesâ€”in the gym, or a money management programâ€”that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: People, Stronger, Management, Money Management

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

- Charles Edwards

topic: Tools, Management, Obstacles

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

- Charles M. Schwab

topic: Management, Labor, Position

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

- Cheryl Crawford

source: Cheryl Crawford (1977). “One naked individual: my fifty years in the theatre”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill

topic: Teaching, Administration, Management

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

- Chris Argyris

source: Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford

topic: People, Facts, Management, Change Management

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: Age, Information, Management

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

topic: Rookies, Management, Forgotten

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

topic: Philosophy, Tools, Management

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Noble, Management, Wells

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

topic: Team, Fads, Management

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

topic: Leadership, Art, Management, Leadership And Management

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

topic: Pain, Understanding, Management, Good Understanding

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

- Dale E. Jones

topic: Risk, Management, Transparency, Risk Management, Assessing

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

- David Hemmings

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tasks, Management, Hotel, Thankless

Management by Walking Around

- David Packard

topic: Management, Walking

There is no business on a dead planet

- David R. Brower

topic: Business, Management, Economics

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

source: "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

topic: Smart, Agents, Management, Drafting, Free Agents

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

topic: Business, Recipes, Management

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

topic: Mother, Way, Management, Publicists

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

- Deng Xiaoping

topic: Quality, Needs, Management

Management has to be where the action is.

- Dieter Zetsche

topic: Action, Management

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

- Donald Luskin

topic: Fundamentals, Filters, Management, Investment Management

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

- Douglas McGregor

source: Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Average, Management, Ingenuity

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

- Douglas Merrill

topic: Waste, Time Management, Management

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

- Douglas Merrill

topic: Mean, Time Management, Management

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

topic: Government, Earth, Management

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

topic: Time Management, Management, Projects

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

topic: Time Management, Management, Fats

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Learning, Knowledge, Management

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Management, Terrorism, Torture

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

- Edward Yourdon

source: Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

topic: Thinking, Quality, Management, Software Engineering

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: Management, Behavior, Profit, Shareholders

No worry before its time.

source: Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.182, Ballantine Books

topic: Worry, Time Management, Management, No Worries

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

topic: Management, Affair, Qualifications

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

- Eric S. Raymond

topic: Memories, Management, Problem

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

- Etienne Wenger

topic: Knowledge, Corporations, Management, Sharing Knowledge

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

topic: Unions, Firsts, Management

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

- Frank Shorter

topic: Racing, Energy, Management

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

topic: Pilots, Management, Plans

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

- Fred L. Turner

topic: Groups, Management, Lows, Turnover

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

topic: Risk, Matter, Management, Risky Business, Risk Management

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

source: "The Magic of Middle Management" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

topic: Innovation, Rewards, Management, Competitive Advantage, Vanguard

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

topic: Belief, Management, Renewal

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

- Gary Hirshberg

topic: Business, Quality, Management

Jesus was a management expert too.

topic: Jesus, Experts, Management

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

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Important, Fertility, Management, Adulthood

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

topic: England, Management, Problem, Judas, Judas Priest

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

topic: People, Management, Overboard, Managing People, Inspiring Leader

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

source: 6 November 1605. 'Dictionary of National Biography'.

topic: Risk, Disease, Management, Assassination

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

topic: Jobs, President, Management

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?

- Hannah Whitall Smith

source: Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.84, Moody Publishers

topic: Worry, Needs, Management

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

topic: Information, Management, Intention

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

- Harold Geneen

source: "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

topic: Business, Management, Economics

What you manage in business is people

- Harold Geneen

topic: Business, People, Management

Management must manage!

- Harold Geneen

topic: Work, Management, Manage

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

- Harold Geneen

source: "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

topic: Decision, Management, Making Decisions

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

- Harold Kerzner

topic: Maturity, Planning, Management, Strategic Planning

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

- Harold Leavitt

source: Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press

topic: Hierarchy, Management, Social

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

topic: Incentives, Buying, Management

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Business, Corporations, Management

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: School, Management, Great Men, Great Managers

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Common Sense, Risk, Management

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

topic: Business, Needs, Management

Anger is short-lived madness.

topic: Anger Management, Management, Madness

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

- Horatio Nelson

topic: Risk, Management, Sometimes

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home

- Ingvar Kamprad

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Home, Independent, Management, Flashy Cars, Being Independent Woman

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

- J. Sidlow Baxter

source: J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.88, Kregel Publications

topic: Management, Christ, Simplify, Consecration

Failing to differentiate among employees â€” and holding on to bottom-tier performers â€” is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

topic: Management, Holding On, Failing, Differentiate

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

topic: Two, Long, Management

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

topic: Leadership, Long, Management

All of management is about self-confidence

topic: Self Confidence, Self, Management

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

- James C. Collins

topic: Mediocrity, Firsts, Management, Good To Great

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

- James E. Grunig

source: David M. Dozier, Larissa A. Grunig, James E. Grunig (2013). “Manager's Guide to Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management”, p.9, Routledge

topic: Communication, Organization, Management, Public Relations

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

- James MacGregor Burns

source: James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

topic: Technique, Ethics, Management

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

- James Sinegal

topic: Years, Size, Management, Costco

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

- James Vila Blake

topic: Passion, Anger Management, Management

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

source: "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

topic: Risk, Opaque, Management, Aircraft

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

topic: Thinking, Needs, Management

Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

topic: Long, Answers, Management, Salespeople, Long Haul

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

topic: Risk, Limits, Management, Risk Management

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

source: Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.132, Macmillan

topic: Opportunity, Management, Threat

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

topic: Facts, Management, Construction

There's one thing that comes into mind when I see Trish Stratus... MANAGEMENT

topic: Mind, Management

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

- Jessica Savitch

source: "Anchorwoman".

topic: Literature, Planning, Management, Uneasy

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

- Jim Hightower

topic: Wages, Management, Produce, Turnover

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

topic: Years, Investing, Management, Active Management

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

topic: Time Management, Management, Wherever You Are

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

topic: Power, Teeth, Management, Quills

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

topic: Looks, Way, Management, Perhaps Love

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

- John Mason Brown

topic: Time, Waiting, Management

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

- John P. Kotter

topic: Business, Management, Economics

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

- John P. Kotter

source: John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

topic: Business, Management, Economics

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

topic: Risk, Management, Problem, Risk Management

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

- Justin Guarini

topic: Management, Bigs, Said, Billboards

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

topic: Team, Decision, Management

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

- Katharine Whitehorn

topic: Book, Mean, Management, Chores, Housework

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

- Katie Cassidy

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Today, Way, Management, Receptionists

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Hate, Guy, Management

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Challenges, Reputation, Management

Catch someone doing something right.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Management

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Business, Important, Management

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

- Kevin B. Rollins

topic: Goal, Fields, Management

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

- Kevin Mitnick

topic: Management, Problem, Physical Attraction

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

topic: Management

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

- Lajos Kossuth

topic: World, Radical Change, Management

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

topic: Decision, Management, Should

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

topic: Decision, Management, Economy, Decisiveness, Good Manager

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Children, Memories, Management

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

topic: Business, Quality, Management

Few people do business well who do nothing else

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Business, People, Management

A low budget is uncomfortable.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Planning, Management, Lows

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.

- Manuel Castells

source: Manuel Castells (2001). “The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Self, Management, Anarchist, Stock Options, Revive

Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

- Marc Ostrofsky

source: "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

topic: Corporations, Buying, Management, Customer Relationship

Yelling is a form of publishing

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Business, Yelling, Management

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

topic: Business, Useless, Management

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

- Maurice Strong

source: John Bellamy Foster (2002). “Ecology Against Capitalism”, p.45, NYU Press

topic: Past, Needs, Management, Ecological, Inertia

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

source: Source: www.askmen.com

topic: Play, Roles, Management

Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it.

- Michael Covel

topic: Needs, Management, Trading, Money Management

Management is not a science, it is an art.

- Michael Eisner

topic: Art, Management

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

- Michael Eisner

source: "Michael Eisner On Media's Future" by Peter Lauria, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2010.

topic: Doe, Matter, Management

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

- Michael Foley

source: Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

topic: Management, Anger Management, Difficult, Snobbery

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

- Michael Foley

source: Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

topic: Multitasking, Management, Excitement, Multi Tasking, Crisis Management

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

- Michael Polanyi

topic: Learning, Knowledge, Management, Possessed, Tacit

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

- Michael Porter

source: Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”

topic: Risk, Management, Strategy, Risk Management, Scenarios

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

topic: Teaching, College, Management

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Creativity, Political, Management, Glasnost

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

topic: Fighting, Today, Management

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

topic: Business, Design, Management, Good Design, Landfills

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

topic: Business, Mean, Management, Workforce

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

- Norbert Reithofer

topic: Business, Environmental, Management, Premium, Compatibility

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, Management, Anger Management

I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

- Oswald Grubel

topic: Long, Risk, Management

Employers are like horses â€” they require management.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Horse, Management, Employers

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

- Pasquier Quesnel

topic: Causes, Anger Management, Management

I hope to be back in management in the next future

topic: Next, Management

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

topic: Thinking, Way, Management, Delighted

Management has authority only as long as it performs.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Long, Management, Authority

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Keys, Management, Economic, Competitive Advantage, Economic Resources

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Country, Tasks, Management

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

- Peter Drucker

topic: Important, Needs, Management, Knowledge Workers, Important Contributions

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Management, Evolve

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

topic: Risk, Analyzing, Management

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

- Peter R. Scholtes

topic: Risk, Today, Management

It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

source: Peter D. Schiff (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Banking, Management, Wealth, Investment Banking

We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of 4G systems make Oneida the right company in the right place at the right time.

topic: Vision, Band, Management

The easy way out usually leads back in.

topic: Risk, Way, Management, Risk Management, Easy Way

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

topic: Team, Want, Management

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

topic: Business, Management, Environment

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

topic: Business, Management, Economics

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Management, Sometimes, Blind

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: War, Secret, Management

Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.

- Randall Dale Adams

topic: Firsts, Management, Blame

Time is the only commodity that matters.

topic: Time Management, Matter, Management, Good Judgement

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

topic: Risk, Management, Hell

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

- Ricardo Semler

topic: Keys, Management

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

- Richard Branson

topic: Business, World, Management

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

- Richard Ernst

topic: Teaching, Research, Management

Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

- Robert H. Johnson

topic: Management, Rich, Top Management

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