M Quotes
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“Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.”
Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.”
“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.”
Source: Bellwether
“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”
“Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.”
“Management does not know what a system is.”
“Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!”
“Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.”
“Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back where we were eight years ago, they have been devaluing our assets, turning a unique institution into just another entertainment company.”
“Management has no divine rights.”
“Management has to be where the action is.”
“Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.”
“Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.”
Source: Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
“Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.”
“Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.”
“Management is a science to be strategically imbibed and an art to be executed. It involves planning, coordination, strategizing, and implementation. Thereby it involves a process to achieve a goal. It involves a process of optimum utilization of resources to achieve a goal.”
“Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.”
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
“Management is about doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
“Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.”
“Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.”
Source: Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times
“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”
“Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.”
“Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.”
“Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.”
“Management is not a science, it is an art.”
“Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.”
“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“Management is prediction.”
“Management is simple, innovation is hard.”
“Management is telling somebody what to do, leadership is inspiring them to do it.”
“Management is the art of getting things done through people.”
“Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work”
“Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.”
“Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.”
Source: The Clayton M. Christensen Reader
“Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.”
“Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.”
Source: People and Performance
“Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.”
“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.”
“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.”
Source: Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
“Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.”