83 quotes found
“To unleash your full potential recognise and acknowledge the greatness in others.”
“To unleash your potential acknowledge the greatness in others”
“The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.”
“A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.”
“Start with the end in mind. ”
“What's measured improves”
“A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”
“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet”
“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.”
“One conclusion is becoming more and more evident: The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people, to make sure that they actually want to do all that stuff. And doing all that stuff ...”
“To build up people teach them to be administrators and managers.”
“The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days....”
“Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates”
“Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.”
“When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.”
“Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.”
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”
“Its not the people you fire who make your life miserable. Its the people you dont.”
