management— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Dear bosses, that you may well be victim to a game of mutual deception, where you are deluding yourself into believing that you are great at your job, but if you really knew how it felt to work for you, you would be shocked to discover that you are seen as an asshole, incompetent, or both.
The very act of wielding power can make you blind to how your subordinates are really responding to you.
People quit bosses, not organizations for the most part.
If you are a boss and believe that your people love you and will never leave you, well, it just might be a good time to look in the mirror.
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles:
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?”
The answer is: “Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg”.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.
A manager is an assistant to his men.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.
An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.
Top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people.
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate always agrees with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.