Management Quotes - Page 9

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.

Experience is costly knowledge.

The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Start with the end in mind.

Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.

Improvement combines effectiveness with simplicity.

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.

The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.

Any change holds an opportunity.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con

Some problems are imaginary and not real.

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 believing you have that power is simply a self-deception that leads to a dishonest relationship with your employees. Employees don't need your permission to switch companies, and if you try to assert that right, they'll simply make their move behind your back.

If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (i.e., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time.Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.

Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it

If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Conflicts have small beginnings.

Sometimes a problem itself offers its own solution.

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they’re being paid to do is not being mean; it’s being a manager, and that’s your job.

Words motivate.

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.

If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

A team is more than the sum of the individuals.

Actions undertaken in anger, only result in pain, sorrow, and regret.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.

Relationships are built on trust.