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.

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.

It shows that there is proper management, and it’s also our state animal.

But considering China mainland’s scandal-riddled brokerage sector, any concrete move may not come early this year before risk-management rules are finalized while only select brokerages are likely to be included at the initial stage.

There’s simply nothing to that, … The dynamics in the board of management are absolutely fantastic. This isn’t a German or an American thing.

It is important to acknowledge that CIA hasn’t totally neglected the issue [of records management].

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in...

By far the biggest RFID segment in coming years will be supply chain management. This segment will account for the largest number of tags/labels from 2005 through 2010.

They’re better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division,...

The longevity of success depends on how well you manage your breakthroughs

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I...

NSO management made the recommendation to the executive committee of the board, who made the appointment.

In sports when you don’t win, there have to be changes made. Ownership and management decided that was the move to make. Obviously I liked Pat and thought he was a great coach, but when...

dealing with not only a lack of management skills, but societies where crowd management generally – not just in sport – is pretty much an alien concept.

Leadership is service, not position.

keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not...

The theater management handled the situation very well.

If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes’ regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Strategy is about shaping the future.