“The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.” JobsEnvironmentManagementStoresManagersTeamworkSeniorSenior Management Author:Sam Walton
“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.” PeopleYearsHas BeensJobsLastsBitsGrowthCompanyEconomyWeekCoupleManagementDecentBuyingChocolateImprovingAccountingGreat JobRestructuring Author:Liz Miller
“I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.” I CanJobsArtistManagementDevelopingWeekendSongwritersMusic BusinessJugglingBinge Author:Ruta Sepetys
“The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.” ShouldBookSchoolJobsIndividualParticularUniqueManagementReformBossConformSubordinatesBusiness SchoolUnique Individuals Author:Peter Drucker
“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.” PeopleWantJobsWeekGoes OnManagementSevenIntensityTollsSeven Days Author:Kenny Dalglish
“The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.” YearsKindMeanJobsMistakeGoes OnManagementManagersMaking MistakesRemarkable Author:Akio Morita
“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.” GivingMayImportantJobsCompanyManagementTargetEngineersImportant JobsDealing With It Author:Akio Morita
“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.” ThinkingTwoWholeWisdomJobsNightPoliticsTermEconomyBattleMassArmyManagementVictimUnionsCustomersWelfareLiberalismEmsConvertingBattleground Author:Louis O. Kelso
“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.” FirstsWholeJobsLossEffortStepsTeamDirectOrganizationAimIndependentManagementProfitSelfishDamageFirst StepsComponentsClarification Author:W. Edwards Deming
“In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.” LittlesSchoolJobsCoursesLeadershipBusinessTaughtPrideReturnSkillsEgoBehaviorFlowManagementCorporateCashEquityTaught UsOrganizationalOptionalCash FlowBusiness SchoolEgo And Pride Book:Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix Source: Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix