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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."
"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?"
"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
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"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."
"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
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