M Quotes
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“Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.”
“Managers not just make 90% organizational decisions, they influence the rest 10% decisions as well.”
Source: How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making
“Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.”
“Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.”
“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.”
“Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.”
“Managers stop by to make sure you’re working. Leaders stop by to encourage you in your work.”
“Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.”
“Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.”
“Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.”
“Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”
“Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.”
“Managers today must change from being supervisors of internal performance to being ‘curators of contribution’ from a distributed talent system.”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“Managers usually have extensive knowledge of events and of the system. They are often available to explain to the therapist the internal systemic dilemmas that are not otherwise evident. Generally, they are fairly empty of affect. Another term for managers has been internal self-helpers (Putnam, 1989).”
Source: Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.”
“Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.”
“Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.”
“Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.”
Source: A Little Book of F-Laws
“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.”
“Managers who insist that employees produce heaps of papers should know that such an approach may result in sloppy implementation.”
“Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.”
“Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.”
“Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.”
“Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.”
“Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.”
“Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish”
“Managing a portfolio is like managing a garden. You don’t just want different kinds of plants in your garden. You want those different plants to have synergy and to work together harmoniously to maximize productivity. In the same way, when different elements in the portfolio have synergy and work together to help each other maximize individual productivity, their collective yields can then be reinvested to maximize the productivity of the whole portfolio. There’s a compounding effect and a multiplicative value effect that takes place with the permaculture investing approach.”
“Managing a walnut orchard requires making numerous economic decisions over the long productive life of the trees.”
Source: Walnut Production Manual
“Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.”
“Managing bottom-up change is its own art.”
“Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does.”
“Managing by results only makes things worse.”
“Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.”
“Managing can be a joy or can be drudgery. A lot of it is up to you.”
Source: Creatives Lead: Kickstart Your Leadership Career, Build a Team of Rock Stars, and Become the Envy of Other Leaders in Only 12 Weeks
“Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.”
“Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Managing digital performance and improving business achievement as an iterative continuum means setting metrics, adjusting plans, measuring performance, and understanding results dynamically.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“Managing disparaging remarks in marriage is a reason for low carriage.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Managing earthly life and spiritual goals hand in hand secretly, sublimely, and like on a secret mission is the glory of living an effective life on Earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Managing emotions is about living your truth rather than suffering a series of reactions.
You are a powerful creator and more than your emotions.Emotions are a good guiding system to let you know what is going on inside; but they are not the rulers of your world. Appreciate your emotional range which is part of the wonderful human experience, but keep your inner guidance system in place. Follow your path. Choose your destination.”
Source: Relax Into Inspired Action: Connect the Pieces and Live Fulfilled
“Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often”
“Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.”
Source: Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
“Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.”
Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.”
“Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.”
Source: People and Performance
“Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.”
“Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.”