Effective management always means asking the right question. Votes: 19
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus. Votes: 15
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. Votes: 10
Think before you act: it's not your money. Votes: 7
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time. Votes: 6
All good management is the expression of one great idea Votes: 6
Either an executive can do his job or he can't. Votes: 6
Fear is excitement without breath. Votes: 5
Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail. Votes: 5
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. Votes: 4
Cash in must exceed cash out. Votes: 3
If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail. Votes: 3
If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly. Votes: 3
Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs. 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
No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back. Votes: 3
Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate. Votes: 3
The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it. Votes: 3
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. Votes: 2
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it. Votes: 0
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same. Votes: 0
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to. Votes: 0
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. Votes: 0
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers. Votes: 0
The first myth of management is that it exists. Votes: 0
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained. Votes: 0