Management And Leadership Quotes

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

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

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

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

To be a good professional engineer,always start to study late for exams.Because it teaches you how tomanage time and tackle emergencies.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

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

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

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

Give today to get better tomorrow.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

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

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?

Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

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

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.