Quotes on Management

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.