M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.”
“Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.”
“Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.”
“Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.”
“Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.”
“Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.”
“Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.”
Source: First Things First
“Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.”
“Management's job is to optimize the whole system.”
“Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.”
“Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.”
“Managements, you know, often think of themselves.”
“Manager comes and goes but the company remains the same.”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“Manager! Have brain - use it!”
“Manager maturity determines employee experience.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Manager owns the employee.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.”
“Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.”
Source: Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder
“Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in the way that they're supposed to, but it's different when your manager is your husband. It's contrary to your soul. That commercial interest presses in upon your whole personal life.”
“Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.”
“Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.”
Source: Something Needs to Change Around Here
“Managers and leaders should develop talent like cultivating a garden, nurturing growth and potential.”
“Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.”
Source: The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management
“Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.”
“Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.”
“Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.”
“Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.”
“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”
“Managers are the most creative people in the world.”
“Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.”
“Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.”
“Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.”
“Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .”
Source: The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward
“Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.”
“Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.”
“Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.”
“Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.”
“Managers control. Leaders create commitment.”
“Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be.”
Source: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
“Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.”
“Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.”
“Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.”
“Managers...give orders, not ownership. Leaders, on the other hand, ask themselves, "How do I get this person to do what I want them to do and make sure they feel good about doing it?”
Source: Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong
“Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.”
“Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.”
“Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.”
“Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.”
“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”
“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”
“Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.”