I do not see how this transaction could benefit anyone other than the current management who must be expecting to feather their own nests, … The $200 million offering price does not come close to...

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

We have problems ahead of us. I will not hide the fact that the management issues are very difficult and we face a polarization of the membership.

Wait. You work for me?””I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don’t offer more than three criticisms. That’s all an employee can digest.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

The economy’s been very good to the industry, which has caused profits to go up, … But the airlines’ management has done a lot to restructure this business. I think in the next recession [even...

Some companies would rather not implement a system until they have their entire records management strategy identified, so they can apply different retention periods to different things, like a message from finance vs. a lunch...

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from...

[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they’re lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able to survive in between cycles. They’re in what would be a very significant well, could...

Hunters for the Hungry gives our hunters a place to donate harvested white-tailed deer, … This helps in the management of our white-tailed deer resource across the state.

You don’t know what you have until you use it. You don’t have to wait until you lose it

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.

…We the players, we see in the training, we know what he is capable of, the management has shown a tremendous amount of patience with him, and yet he’s come back, and that’s a good...

It’s not something we enjoy doing but we feel management has taken a turn for the worse in the last several years. We’re in constant negotiations, but their demands are egregious.

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM’s new project and portfolio management software, organizations can...

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

Start with the end in mind.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform ‘leader of position’ to ‘leadership with moral purpose’.

Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage few minutes, you are likely to waste 24 hours no matter how many times it’s given to...

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they’re expected to do / they always...

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, … To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can’t be done quickly. There will be people...

We’re seeing a move toward much more active portfolio management, especially in application development.

We have the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, our emergency management division (and) our Iowa National Guard working with local folks to try to put hundreds of thousands...

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.