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“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

“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.”

Years Ends Reality Levels Stage Products Couple Built Management Rose Including Marketing Loyalty Users Fades Versus Microsoft

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”

Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

“People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.”

People Thinking Bigs Pay Quality Willing Products Higher Smart Management Speed More Money

Author:Brian Tracy

“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.”

“The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.”

Knows Differences Products Management Department Manufacturing

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.”

Products Management Customers Producers Nothing New New Products

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.”

Want Trying Products Models Management Structure What You Want Business Models

Author:Sam Altman

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”

Problem Reality Belief Risk Products Civilization Solutions Illusion Absolutes Management Determined Organized Application Expertise Risk Management

Author:Voltaire

“To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.”

Men Want Jobs Leader Generations Products Exercise Capacity Labor Management Determine Enterprise Sole Domain Utopian Our Generation Prerogative Invading

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.”

Products Management Prosperity God Provides

Author:Matthew Ashimolowo

“Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.”

Waiting Products Management Competitors Obsolete Lead In

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.”

Needs Enough Situation Information Products Beats Management Architecture Sufficient Good Enough Mechanism Users Not Good Enough Suppliers Coordinating

Author:Clayton Christensen

“I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.”