People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating...

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids’ futures.

I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making – control, direction, and compliance – melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company’s values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

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This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

We want to look at whether these functions such as financial management are core to the agencies’ mission, or should they spend money to get data from a shared service provider. We really want people...

Leash the anger on purpose.Unleash it when falling apart.

Appointing the new central bank management has turned into a mysterious political game.

The management team he (Hart) put in place allows me to promote Jon Daniels to become the youngest general manager in major league history,

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

On le voit, la question est systémique ; il faut une sorte boussole au leadership pour lui permettre d’assumer une fonction de prévention ; l’adage s’applique alors à la gestion des affaires de la cité...

I think they’re definitely looking for asset management companies in the U.S.. Certainly, they have a shareholder base that’s confident of their ability to do a large acquisition without any hiccups.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can’t make a difference.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there...

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don’t do anything, they don’t make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

Wealth management in China is still in its infancy. Although people want to invest, they don’t have many channels.

A few of the managers we spoke with for this book worried that the tour of duty framework might give employees “permission” to leave. But permission is not yours to give or to withhold, and...

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together...

You can actually recreate your world with the Word of the Creator in your mouth.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Constant endeavour plus management amounts to success

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The OS has to support patch management. If it’s being used more than you thought, then you built it better than you thought. You just have to have patch management built into the OS.

Existuje jistý druh vedoucích, kteří jsou známí svým “Moje dveře jsou vždycky otevřené” a bylo by pravděpodobně lepší utlouci se vlastním životopisem než pro ně pracovat.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

It’s good that management is not going into a shell and saying they want to preserve cash for the rainiest of rainy days since it is already rainy.

Manager! Have brain – use it!

Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

Management believes the group can generate half of its profits from outside the U.K. within three years from the current portfolio of businesses – we think highlights the strong organic growth possibilities within the business.

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use – so that lowers management costs.

This is not just a pilot course. We will be teaching air traffic management, safety science and physiology. Very few of the students will undertake flight training.

It was important that we move quickly to establish an interim management structure while we begin our search for a new director. As co-directors, they will carry out the strategic direction and work plan clearly...