management— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments
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.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accounatability — can flourish.
More important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.