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“Time management is a big part of the director's job.”

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Author:Debbie Allen

“It's management's job to know.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.”

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles!”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.”

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Author:Jesse James Garrett

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

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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

“Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.”

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Author:George E. P. Box

“In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.”

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Author:Thomas Dreier

“Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.”

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Author:Gwen Ifill

“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”

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Author:Russell Baker