Quotes on Top Management

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

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

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

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.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.