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