Management Quotes

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.
-- Management Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
-- Management Quotes by Peter Drucker

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
-- Management Quotes by Peter Drucker

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
-- Management Quotes by Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
-- Management Quotes by Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
-- Management Quotes by Peter Drucker

We call ourselves a “capacity building” organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don’t think I have signed a check for the company.
- -- Management Quotes by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don’t think the derogatory ‘‘managed relationships’’. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can’t be money, and it should not be money.
-- Management Quotes by Anil Ambani

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
-- Management Quotes by Mary Kay Ash

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
-- Management Quotes by Walter Chrysler

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions.. whether in the corporate or social sectors.. to advance their own interests.
-- Management Quotes by Jim Collins

If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
-- Management Quotes by Jim Collins

I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.
-- Management Quotes by Chris Corrigan

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.
-- Management Quotes by Chris Corrigan

I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind. It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper. As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.
-- Management Quotes by Chris Corrigan

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.
-- Management Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.
-- Management Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi