Management Theory Quotes - Page 2

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

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

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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.

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.

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

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