“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.” LongSelfLastsNamesLinesResultsKnowledgeLearningLimitsDiversityOrganizationManagementResponseBottomProductivityEvolveCorporationsConsistentDucksEngineeringEfficiencyVariationRefinedDisruptivePayoffOperating SystemsStreamlining Author:Richard Pascale
“We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes” PeopleProcessDifferencesResultsBrokenManagementAverageBrilliantManageCompetitorsKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessRecipe For SuccessToyota Author:Fujio Cho
“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.” ShouldMeanLongHas BeensMadeRealPastValuesTurnsEnergyTermInterestResultsHonestSecurityMajorsIncreaseManagementInvestmentSellingCorporationsLong TermBuyingInvestorsReceivingCompetentDividendsBuying And Selling Author:Benjamin Graham
“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.” WellsProcessResultsManagementProbability Author:Anthony Stafford Beer
“Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.” KnowsI CanResultsRaceManagementStrategyQualifyingTyres Author:Romain Grosjean
“We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHardFunEnjoyResultsQualityRiskEssenceManagementStrategyCommittedTraditionalOrganisationHigh QualityPuzzlingProducing Results Author:Peter Senge
“Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.” ProcessResultsPowerfulCompanyTechnologyJourneyManagementMarketingErasHeightInternalsBusiness SuccessImplementationNew EraAutomation Author:Jon Miller
“... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.” ChildrenGovernmentResultsResponsibilityGroupsHonorMoonCriticismManagementAssumingWorkersIgnorantCodeUnfairDecencyEmployersRecalcitrant Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.” CareResultsScientistManagementMisuse Author:W. Edwards Deming
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.” InspirationalResultsCompanySuccessfulRecordsEconomicBuiltManagementClimateTransitionOperating SystemsEconomic Climate Author:Jack Welch
“Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.” WayWantMadeHappensResultsCapitalismManagementOrganizedWillpowerIntervention Book:The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why Source: The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why
“Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.” ShouldMightResultsTypeManagementWorkersSatisfactionEmployeeBossSanctionsReposeNaps Author:Tom Hodgkinson