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

Management Fundamentals Investment Filters Investment Management

Author:Donald Luskin

“What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.”

Firsts Important Helping Left Situation Management Clean Workers Awful Teamwork Emergencies

Author:Joe Lhota

“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Years Has Beens Past Ten Hundred Asking Management Indian Fifty

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

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

Guy Hate Natural I Hate Management Forgotten

Author:Keith Olbermann

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

Difficult Challenges Management Reputation

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.”

Years Stories Sides Five Proud Unique Years Ago Management Five Years Both Sides Kevin Cbc

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.”

Has Beens Reason Growth Cases Growing Industry Majors Shadow Management Marketing Wave Enthusiasm Decline Riding Threatened Saturated

Book:Marketing Myopia

Source: Marketing Myopia

“For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.”

Way Want Film Safe Degrees Independent Management Corporate Mentality Independent Film American Film

Author:Anthony LaPaglia

“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.”

Process Program Management Customers Corporations Buying Sophisticated Customer Relationship

Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

Wanted Faces Black Acting Careers Goes On Management University Boxes Brown Phds Black Face

Author:Archie Panjabi

“People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.”

People Culture Asks Left Cases News Management Corporate Disgusting Colleagues Gathering Cnn Corporate Culture

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.”

People Knows World Wells Has Beens Wish Team Deserve England Management Cups Fantastic Mike Johnson World Cup Brian Squad

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.”

Movement Organization Management Secrecy Present Day Auras Scientology

Author:Lawrence Wright

“The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.”

Today Growth Challenges Business Economic Keys Resources Performances Management Workers Productivity Productive Economic Growth Manuals Knowledge Workers Today's Society

Author:Peter Drucker

“All lasting business is built on friendship.”

Inspirational Business Built Economics Management Lasting Insightful Lasting Friendship Business Inspiration

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

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

Passion Weak Anger Management Anger Management

Author:James Vila Blake

“As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.”

Black Wind Anger Management Storm Passing Passings Anger Management

Author:James Vila Blake

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.”

Heart Problem Social Knowledge Learning Environment Walking Solutions Consequence Management Deeper Social Life Adaptive Unintended Consequences Trampolines

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”

Doe Knowledge Practice Learning Management

Author:Richard Pascale

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

People Real Action Understanding Situation Knowledge Learning Creating Management Objectives Engagement Buzz

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

Social Knowledge Learning Information Communication Management Insight Contrary Transfers Social Life Embedded Social Systems

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.”

Community Knowledge Practice Learning Discovery Management Response Rejection Silver Bullets Immune Evoke Best Practices Silver Bullets

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“Lost time is never found again.”

Source: Essays and Letters

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.”

Ifs Men Doe Church Liberty Land Daughter Management Errors Affair Ill Positive Atheism Neighbor Complaining Substance Conform Ceremony Consuming Marrying Sowing Taverns

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.”

Used Company Management Dresses Occasions Expensive Republic Casual Wardrobe Bananas Consulting

Author:John Legend

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

Communication Organization Relation Management Public Relations

Book:Manager's Guide to Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management

Source: Manager's Guide to Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management

“A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business”

Lessons Management Investment Relate Worldly Worldly Wisdom Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.”

Sports Principles Management Basic Principles

Author:Will Carling

“Management is not a science, it is an art.”

Author:Michael Eisner

“I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.”

Care Team Management Health Care Diabetes

Author:Charlie Kimball

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Inspirational Art Motivational Inspiring Knowledge Learning Virtue Habit Training Management Excellence Productivity Service Excellence Moral Excellence Work Habits Academic Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.”

Way May Two Reason Growth Company Share Easier Management Strategy Access Finance Plus More Money Funding Liquid Exit Top Management

Author:Marc Rich

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

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

Age Information Management Information Age

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.”

“By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.”

Position Products Directors Ethics Management Reputation Accomplishment Work Ethic Great Work Negotiating Great Work Ethic

Book:Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship

Source: Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship

“In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.”

Facts Communication Management Crisis Blame Crisis Management

Book:Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You

Source: Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Thinking Littles Can Do Change Justice Knowledge Learning Failing Shapes Management Social Justice Deeds Range Our Thoughts Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Love Mean Made Stills Problem Age Hair Roots Skins Management Shoes Convinced Intensity Inches Anger Management

Book:True

Source: True

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat”

Opportunity Business Seeing Exercise Degrees Economics Management Threat

Author:Chris Huhne

“The most successful people in life have the best information”

People Business Successful Information Economics Management Successful People

Book:The Sunfood Diet Success System

Source: The Sunfood Diet Success System

“The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.”

Ifs World Has Beens Might Form Successful Projects Management Active Time Management Tides Might Have Been Impatience Unfinished Unfinished Business

Book:All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world

Source: All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world

“Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.”

War Century Style Concepts Management Servant Monarchy Borrowed Pyramids Servant Leadership Top Down

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel.”

Source: The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace