Quotes In Management
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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Effective management always means asking the right question.
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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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A manager is an assistant to his men.
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It is one of the favourite pastimes of management to decide, from within their professional ivory tower, what help the field organisation needs and then to design and develop programs for meeting these needs. Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.
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Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.
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Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
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The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
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Sometimes I wonder how to describe my job to other people. 'Sysadmin of a people network' kind of describes it, but sounds a little weird. On Twitter, 22 May 2009.
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Being an effective boss is about using the behavior you can control (your own) to influence the behavior and performance of your team members.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.
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managers will try anything easy that doesn’t work before they will try anything hard that does work
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Kaizen does not attempt to light a fire under people. It lights the fire within them.
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