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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

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I would hope that American managers--indeed, managers worldwide--continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than \"making deals.\" Management affects people and their lives.

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The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .

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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

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Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

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The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

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The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

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Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

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The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"

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It\'s better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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Both Warren and I insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

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In God we trust, all others must bring data.

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Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

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If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organize, coordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

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To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

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If there isn't join in work, you won't get productivity, and you won't get quality.

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To copy is to invite disaster.

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95% of changes made by management today make no improvement.

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Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

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The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

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