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Most management-speak is, as Schrijvers points out, Panglossian balderdash designed to lull the weak and credulous
-Anon.
Daily Telegraph, July 2004
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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.
-Proverb
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
-Dean Acheson
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Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.
-Mary Ann Allison
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If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
-Norman Augustine
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If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.
-Charles Beacham
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
-Ambrose Bierce
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
-Ken Blanchard
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As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
-Ken Blanchard
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
-George Earle Buckle
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
-Warren Buffett
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A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
-H.S.M. Burns
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
-Joseph Conrad
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
-Stephen Covey
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
-Stephen Covey
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We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be knowledge workers.
-Owen Davies
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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
-Peter Drucker
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-Peter Drucker
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
-Peter Drucker
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The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
-Pricilla Elfrey
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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
-Adam C. Engst
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A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.
-Edward Esber
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Books about Management
