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Management Quotes
"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."
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"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
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"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."
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"There are no managers like there used to be managers."
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"They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me."
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"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
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"When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right."
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"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know."
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"But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue."
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"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."
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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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"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
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"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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"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."
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"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."
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"Effective management always means asking the right question."
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"The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management."
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."
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"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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"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 difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
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"Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers."
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"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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"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."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."
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"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
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"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."
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"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."
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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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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
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"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
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"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."
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"I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing."
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"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
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"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
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"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
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"Leadership is relationship."
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"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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"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."
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