Quotes about Managers

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before. Votes: 4

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two. Votes: 4

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! Votes: 4

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. Votes: 4

Managers control. Leaders create commitment. Votes: 3

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people. Votes: 3

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time. Votes: 3

Managers are the most creative people in the world. Votes: 3

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong. Votes: 3

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. Votes: 3

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change. Votes: 3

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going. Votes: 3

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control. Votes: 3

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems. Votes: 3

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us. Votes: 3

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return. Votes: 3

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. Votes: 3

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. Votes: 3

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss. Votes: 3

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. Votes: 3

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle. Votes: 3

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. Votes: 3

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. Votes: 3

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. Votes: 3

Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving . Votes: 3

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. Votes: 3

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. Votes: 3

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. Votes: 3

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy. Votes: 3

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business. Votes: 3

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. Votes: 3

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't. Votes: 3

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. Votes: 3

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. Votes: 3

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. Votes: 3

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake. Votes: 3

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. Votes: 3

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings. Votes: 3

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire. Votes: 3

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints. Votes: 3

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work. Votes: 3

Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children. Votes: 3

Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them. Votes: 3

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental. Votes: 3

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. Votes: 3

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept. Votes: 3

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels. Votes: 3

The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers. Votes: 3

Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies. Votes: 3

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth. Votes: 3

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move. Votes: 3

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing. Votes: 3

Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Votes: 3

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills. Votes: 3

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. Votes: 3

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. Votes: 2

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Votes: 2

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. Votes: 2

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. Votes: 2

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. Votes: 2

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Votes: 2

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. Votes: 2

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet. Votes: 2

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. Votes: 2

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. Votes: 2

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently. Votes: 2

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been. Votes: 2

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system. Votes: 2

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon. Votes: 2

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. Votes: 2

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced. Votes: 2

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Votes: 2

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. Votes: 2

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment. Votes: 2

Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that's in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we'll be astounded. As I'd like to express it, the human spirit will fly. Votes: 2

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. Votes: 2

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. Votes: 2

People quit managers, not jobs. Votes: 0

People leave managers, not companies Votes: 0

Of course managers win ball games. Votes: 0

People join organizations, they leave managers. Votes: 0

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. Votes: 0

Good managers have a bias for action. Votes: 0

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change. Votes: 0

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers. Votes: 0

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever. Votes: 0

We don't need less kids, just more middle managers Votes: 0

There are no managers like there used to be managers. Votes: 0

Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. Votes: 0

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. Votes: 0

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers. Votes: 0

The key to management is to get rid of the managers. Votes: 0

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly. Votes: 0

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. Votes: 0

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners. Votes: 0

I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me. Votes: 0

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Votes: 0

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line. Votes: 0

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. Votes: 0

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history. Votes: 0

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Votes: 0

'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers. Votes: 0

He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for. Votes: 0

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? Votes: 0

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers. Votes: 0

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. Votes: 0

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. Votes: 0

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. Votes: 0

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you. Votes: 0

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain. Votes: 0

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be. Votes: 0

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. Votes: 0

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. Votes: 0

I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing. Votes: 0

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers. Votes: 0

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers. Votes: 0

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. Votes: 0

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. Votes: 0

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. Votes: 0

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. Votes: 0

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. Votes: 0

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. Votes: 0

Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger Votes: 0

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers. Votes: 0

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. Votes: 0

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers Votes: 0

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal. Votes: 0

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do. Votes: 0

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks. Votes: 0

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. Votes: 0

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. Votes: 0

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me. Votes: 0

You have an Ice Cream Sundae, put the whipped cream on - that's what managers do. Votes: 0

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win. Votes: 0

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. Votes: 0

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers. Votes: 0

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. Votes: 0

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. Votes: 0

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. Votes: 0

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre. Votes: 0

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management. Votes: 0

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers Votes: 0

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. Votes: 0

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. Votes: 0

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. Votes: 0

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers. Votes: 0

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers. Votes: 0

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we're comfortable with new lows. Votes: 0

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero. Votes: 0

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise. Votes: 0

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. Votes: 0

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. Votes: 0

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas. Votes: 0

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone. Votes: 0

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. Votes: 0

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. Votes: 0

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. Votes: 0

How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong. Votes: 0

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all. Votes: 0

We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. Votes: 0

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave Votes: 0

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets. Votes: 0

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. Votes: 0

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried. Votes: 0

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace. Votes: 0

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them. Votes: 0

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs' Votes: 0

If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about. Votes: 0

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick. Votes: 0

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do. Votes: 0

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids? Votes: 0

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,. Votes: 0

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate. Votes: 0

John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset. Votes: 0

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'. Votes: 0

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet. Votes: 0

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers. Votes: 0

Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others. Votes: 0

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit Votes: 0

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money. Votes: 0

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. Votes: 0

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it. Votes: 0

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. Votes: 0

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other. Votes: 0

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand." Votes: 0

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. Votes: 0

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. Votes: 0

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything. Votes: 0

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden. Votes: 0

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons. Votes: 0

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that. Votes: 0

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. Votes: 0

Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers. Votes: 0

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management. Votes: 0

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. Votes: 0

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us Votes: 0

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry. Votes: 0

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. Votes: 0

Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute. Votes: 0

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth. Votes: 0

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. Votes: 0

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money. Votes: 0

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation. Votes: 0

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything. Votes: 0

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. Votes: 0

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers. Votes: 0

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world Votes: 0

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school? Votes: 0

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in. Votes: 0

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great. Votes: 0

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers. Votes: 0

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona. Votes: 0

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work. Votes: 0

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least. Votes: 0

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously. Votes: 0

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things. Votes: 0

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Votes: 0

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting. Votes: 0

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame. Votes: 0

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers. Votes: 0

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us. Votes: 0

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on. Votes: 0

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. Votes: 0

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are." Votes: 0

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are. Votes: 0

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. Votes: 0

When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews. Votes: 0

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon. Votes: 0

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. Votes: 0

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book. Votes: 0

The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number. Votes: 0

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in. Votes: 0

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss. Votes: 0

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. Votes: 0

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. Votes: 0

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers. Votes: 0

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that. Votes: 0

There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies. Votes: 0

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. Votes: 0

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders. Votes: 0

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians. Votes: 0

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types. Votes: 0

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous. Votes: 0

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. Votes: 0

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line. Votes: 0

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers. Votes: 0

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. Votes: 0

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter. Votes: 0

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.' Votes: 0

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas. Votes: 0

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play. Votes: 0

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch. Votes: 0

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today. Votes: 0

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why. Votes: 0

We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we also need creative journalists and media workers. Votes: 0

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics. Votes: 0

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are. Votes: 0

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. Votes: 0

Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance. Votes: 0

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination. Votes: 0

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong. Votes: 0

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands. Votes: 0

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things. Votes: 0

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans. Votes: 0

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses. Votes: 0

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me. Votes: 0

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. Votes: 0

Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers. Votes: 0

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing? Votes: 0

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. Votes: 0

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens. Votes: 0

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein. Votes: 0

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners. Votes: 0

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired. Votes: 0

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm. Votes: 0

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white. Votes: 0

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. Votes: 0

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers. Votes: 0

Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce. Votes: 0

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up. Votes: 0

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses. Votes: 0

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family. Votes: 0

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'. Votes: 0

Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers. Votes: 0

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high Votes: 0

I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay. Votes: 0

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well. Votes: 0

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at. Votes: 0

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers. Votes: 0

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed. Votes: 0

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!' Votes: 0

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. Votes: 0

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to. Votes: 0

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research. Votes: 0

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions. Votes: 0

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, "How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?" I wonder how many of them do? Votes: 0

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa. Votes: 0

In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations. Votes: 0

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future. Votes: 0

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters. Votes: 0

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest. Votes: 0

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy. Votes: 0

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. Votes: 0

To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team. Votes: 0

Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs. Votes: 0

During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game. Votes: 0

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. Votes: 0

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial... Votes: 0

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish. Votes: 0

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky. Votes: 0

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this. Votes: 0

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? Votes: 0

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it. Votes: 0

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again. Votes: 0

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. Votes: 0

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well. Votes: 0

The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.' Votes: 0

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. Votes: 0

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you. Votes: 0

We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't. Votes: 0

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player. Votes: 0

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts. Votes: 0

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view. Votes: 0

Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear. Votes: 0

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds. Votes: 0

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload. Votes: 0

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand Votes: 0

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are. Votes: 0

People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers Votes: 0

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate. Votes: 0

I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance. Votes: 0

Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people. Votes: 0

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me. Votes: 0

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes. Votes: 0