Quotes on Management

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

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who_x000D_ watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what_x000D_ happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes_x000D_ things happen.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

There's no such thing as knowledge management;_x000D_ _x000D_ there are only knowledgeable people._x000D_ _x000D_ Information only becomes knowledge_x000D_ _x000D_ in the hands of someone_x000D_ _x000D_ who knows what to do with it.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.