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Management Quotes
"A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain."
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"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."
7
"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."
7
"At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them."
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"There are no managers like there used to be managers."
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"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
6
"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself."
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"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
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"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."
6
"Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own."
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"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
6
"A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me."
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"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
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"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."
5
"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."
5
"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."
5
"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"Effective management always means asking the right question."
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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
4
"The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management."
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"One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't."
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"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
3
"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
3
"Leadership is relationship."
2
"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
2
"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."
2
"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
2
"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."
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"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."
1
"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."
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"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."
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"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
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"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."
"We need to learn to protect our time."
"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."
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