Management Quotes - Page 5

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.

people inspire you, or they drain you-Pick them wisely

Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.

Time management is essential for a work-life balance.

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

Only time can reveal the future.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.

If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.

Unfulfilled needs makes training unfulfilled.

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

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

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.

I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

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.

The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.

You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not

You can easily manage what you create. Create time for what you dream of accomplishing and you will manage it till it's done and done well!

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Angry issues need settling time.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Conflicts are expensive.

Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Producing what is required for the time, without damaging our inbuilt features is an art

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Change is possible only if the top management agrees.

Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy.

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 can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

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.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.

Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.And we need to change that!

If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting life…

Leaders rule hearts, not people.

Relationships need to be valued today, for tomorrow is uncertain.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself that the right person can change the world.