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.

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

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.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

We have always supported the idea of parity management and we stick to it now. Moreover, we see the possibility of inviting a third, foreign partner into the consortium and of redistributing stakes in it...

We would like the whole senior management team to stay.

Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

When executives express their dissatisfaction with their companies’ portfolio management success, the problem often stems from internal politics or lack of support. Internal struggles will plague portfolio management groups until their corporate cultures accept their...

De c nd am venit la primărie, am reușit să creez un fel de ritual al unor înt lniri foarte scurte, dar care se petrec cu regularitate, cu ochii pe ceas, în fiecare luni dimineața,...

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn’t have a soul.

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform...

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

Some things that seem better done tomorrow would be best done today

You’ll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

It can be dangerous to be right at the outset. Managers in some LCD-first companies interpreted the pivot point as an unconditional endorsement of everything they had been doing. As a result, they failed to...

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Remember the Golden Rule? “Treat people as you would like to be treated.” The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don’t treat people as you would like to be treated....

That’s for the club management.

Touch paper only once.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

Our Asset Management Services division is an important part of our Group. Over the last decade, we have built a significant international distribution capability, which delivers investment solutions to institutional investors and their consultants. Our...

Continued good strong cost management will be implemented in the fourth quarter,

It doesn’t matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn’t cry.

I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

$50 billion is simply too much to give FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) all at once and ensure proper oversight.

Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the...

Employers are like horses — they require management.

Anger can be managed to becomeemotional content that raises power.

HP is adding simplicity for HP-UX customers that also buy their management software. They can overlay this ID management tool for the operating system and reduce wasted resources on server management.

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn’t respond.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Small companies are always right on the edge. (Setting up a retirement plan) distracts the management from their single-minded purpose of getting business in the door. You’ve got to make it easy for those people.

Wars, conflicts, instability and the poor environmental management of the previous regime have left their scars on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi environment,

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

I call these lessons ‘learned on the fly’ because the knowledge gained from the experiences connected with them were very much akin to the spirit of the centerfielder in baseball running backward at full speed,...