In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

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

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.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Cliché: “The MBA changed my life.”What it really means: “A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance…three of the things I had before I started the program.

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

In business ‘professionalism’ is not a tactic but a moral value.

Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require...

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else – cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments – as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

HP customers benefit because the roadmap simplifies their transition from point asset management and service desk products to an integrated management platform.

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

There has to be a way to redirect employee’s driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

We have the assets, we have the management, we have the size to chart our own course, … I think we will be very successful.

We think this was a move to gauge management and shareholder reaction and flush out other potential bidders.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

I have to ill feeling toward (the Red Sox). But I’d like to do well. I’d like to show management they made a mistake.

That’s why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness.”And it was true, she realized. She didn’t run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn’t give orders just to make herself feel important....

You can easily manage what you create. Create time for what you dream of accomplishing and you will manage it till it’s done and done well!

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Not only does it play as a mobility domain for domain, authentication and RF management, but we introduced some new features that make it more attractive not only to enterprise customers but also smaller businesses...

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts’ consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney’s stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and...

Tackling it end-to-end means incorporating people, process, data management, and warranty management. It allows [companies] to manage service as a business.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

You don’t need a prophet to wake you up from your bed; you need no archbishop to describe the size of your spoon for you. Remember, you are in the center of management of your...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won’t so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people...

As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide ‘If you can measure it, you can manage it’ has been a hindrance in the...

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist – and finding a solution – or seeing what does not yet exist – and finding an opportunity.

But even at this rate, we’re growing faster than the market and anticipate continuing to do so. Revenue management is really the watchword for us at this point.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

It’s really starting to stick. If nothing else, it’s a major distraction for management.

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn’t copy my professionalism.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

All businesses — no matter if they make dog food or software — don’t sell products, they sell solutions.

I don’t think there’s a person on our management team that wouldn’t have liked a couple more quarters to prove our mettle,

If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.