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Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

Stills Important Care Pain Order Taken Habit Fit Responsible Management Contact Employee Executives Satisfying Indulge Indulge In Courteous Short Sighted

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.”

Needs May Has Beens Matter Certain Company One Thing Management Investing Surface Statements Chiefs Executives Investors Earning Chief Executives Large Companies

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.”

Long Past Views Creativity Practice Industry Management Sacred Tired Legacy Executives

Author:Gary Hamel

“Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.”

Needs Should Style Management Employee Executives Ceo

Author:Keith Rabois

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.”

“The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.”

Ifs Might Hero Management Criminals Hills Buying Employee Executives Boss Collapse Beef Sucker Enron Top Management

Author:Ann Coulter

“With the film, you have a bunch of executive producers, directors, writers, scripts. There's, management, lighting, the union and etc. There are so many components a part of that game, so naturally it isn't my world.”

World Film Games Directors Management Unions Scripts Bunch Producers Etc Executives Components Lighting

Author:Ashanti

“All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.”

Strong Grows Cost Lows Labor Management Including Enterprise Executives Incentives Profitable

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”

Inspirational Trying Has Beens Might Suffering Loss Learning Failing Failure Management Executives Might Have Been Inaction Inactivity Learning By Doing

Book:The Functions of the Executive

Source: The Functions of the Executive

“Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.”

Issues Example Morality Ethics Organization Management Chiefs Executives Chief Executives

Author:Edward F. Hennessey

“The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.”

People I Can Responsibility Responsible Management Very Good Employee Executives Dozen Senior Bucks Tick

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action”

Art Use Action Business Authority Art Is Economics Management Nine Executives Pertinent

Author:Chester Barnard

“The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency”

“If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is”

“When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.”

“It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.”

Want Believe Whole Bigs Company Management Don't Believe Administration Corporate Operations Executives Layers Infrastructure Reducing Arriving

Author:Carlos Slim

“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

Ifs School Successful Organization Paid Management Dollars Average Profit Accomplished Executives Public School Salary Taxpayers Charter Public Education Rationale Charter Schools

Book:Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Source: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

“Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

Work Talking Destiny Hollywood Management Folks Finished Executives

Author:Kin Hubbard

“We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.”

Business Groups Lows Management Executives Turnover

Author:Fred L. Turner

“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”

Matter Reality Decision Business Mistake Dangerous Management Assuming Discussion Making Mistakes Decision Making Executives Senior Business Decisions

Book:The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.”

Important Jobs Individual Decision Responsibility Organization Management Fellows Workers Executives Tolerate Important Jobs Business Management Top Management Strategic Management Fellow Workers

Book:The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”

Needs Shows Decision Results Wise Strength Information Expectations Management Improvement Executives Knowledge And Information Information Knowledge

Book:Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

“To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.”

Ifs Needs Hours Numbers Risk Management Workers Sufficient Executives Impressive Risk Management Chunks Knowledge Workers

Book:The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker

Source: The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker

“The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.”

Wells Long Today Moving Term Company Team Management Depth Long Term Executives Announcing

Author:Gerard Arpey

“If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.”

Ifs Long Has Beens School Simple Failing Management Majority Rate Medical Executives Long Ago Physicians Medical School

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

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