Quotes on Management

Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

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?

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.