Management Quotes - Page 6

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships.

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, ‘This is wrong’. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature’s management.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

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

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of atleast a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies followyour business approach, you are certainly an important manager withleader characteristics.

Reasoning culminates in gaining knowledge.

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

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

Whatever the religion, we are formatted to accept hierarchy without any questions and while most management studies discuss business models, organisation and power structure, they seldom question the different types of hierarchies. One has to wonder if this hierarchy really is an absolute truth…

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Change is constant.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

Retail selling benefits from aggressive publicity.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

To unleash your potential acknowledge the greatness in others

The wise communicate in subtle ways.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Time should be spent happily without regrets.

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

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

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Highlighting strengths increases sales.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

Be a worthy company and clients will come.

Leash the anger on purpose.Unleash it when falling apart.

The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.

Going out of the way for a customer increases sales.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.