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...

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Un problème fondamental est la mort de la passion en leurs rêves et projets, voire d’une vie comateuse des gens inaptes à refonder la renaissance en leurs rêves et projets. Ces gens qui ne rêvent...

Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and ‘Management of Migratory Flows’ has been selected theme of the meeting,

A free and open Internet is a despot’s worst enemy.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

The [UN] outcome document’s lack of detail, and definitive statements on critical areas such as oversight, accountability, management and budgeting, do not inspire confidence,

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

Michael is starting to get real consistent. His course management is really good.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal

Management is like sex – everyone thinks they’re good at it despite limited evidence.

Dan’s background in both technology and general management make him an outstanding addition to our team as we build upon the successes of our most recent product offerings. Dan has a proven track record of...

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Don’t be inscribed by circumstances, circumscribe the circumstances

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don’t enjoy.

Management, a science? Of course not, it’s just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate...

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees...