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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. Thomas J. Watson Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter Drucker So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. Harold S. Geneen Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John D. Rockefeller Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Donald Rumsfeld Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them. Donald Rumsfeld Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. Colin Powell If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. Norman Augustine I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. Scott Adams The smaller the function, the greater the management. C Northcote Parkinson Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books. Jack Welch The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. Robert Heller |
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