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"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."
"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."
"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."
"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"
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"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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