Professional Documents
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QUOTES
“Setting and communicating the
right expectations is the most
important tool a manager has for
imparting that elusive drive to
the people he supervises.”
-ANDREW S.GROVE, CEO, INTEL
CORPORATION
“ ‘Put people first’ should be a
mantra for today's managers.
Start with people, involve people,
take time for people, thank
people.”
-ANONYMOUS
“All good work is done in
defiance of management.”
-BOB WOODWARD,
REPORTER
“The generation and direction
of human energies is the task
of management. Management
is the mover, and development
is a consequence.”
-PETER F.DRUCKER,
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
“Information gathering is
the basis of all other
managerial work.”
-ANDREW S.GROVE,CEO,
INTEL CORPORATION
“Good management is not
what happens when you are
there, but what happens
when you are not there.”
-KEN BLANCHARD
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
“Management is what you do
with people,not to them.”
- Frederick HERZBERG,
Management Theorist
“Management is about common
sense.”
- Peter F. DRUCKER,
Management Consultant
“Continuous,supportive
communication from
managers,supervisors and
associates is too often
underemphasized. It is a major,
major motivator.”
- Jim MOULTRUP,Consultant for
Management Perspectives Groups
“A manager’s credibility is
as good as his or her
word.”
- Bob NELSON
“A manager should be
able to fire somebody
he really likes and
promote a guy who picks
his nose.”
- James O’TOOLE
“Objectives are not fate; they are
direction. They are not commands;
they are commitments. They do not
determine the future; they are
means to mobilize the resources and
energies of the business for the
making of the future.”
- Peter F.DERUCKER, Management
Consultant
“Your job is to get things
done through other people...
You are paid to manage, not
perform every task.”
- H.M.S.BURNS, President,
Shell Oil Co.
“The way managers that treat their
subordinates is subtly influenced by what
they expect of them. If a manager’s
expectations are low, productivity is likely
to be excellent. If his expectations are
low, productivity is likely to be poor. It is
as though there were a law that causes a
subordinate’s performance to rise or fall to
meet his manager’s expectations.”
- J. Sterling LIVINGSTON, Harvard
Business Review
“To be effective,a manager must
accept a decreasing degree of
direct control.”
- Portuguese Proverb
“The more you want people to
have creative ideas and solve
difficult problems, the less you
can afford to manage them with
terror.”
- Daniel GREENBERG, Chairman,
Electro Rent Corp.
“Ten steps for Creating More Empowered and
More Energized Workers.
• Organize primarily around process, not task.
• Flatten the hierarchy by minimizing subdivision of processes.
• Give senior leaders charge of processes and process performance,
• Link performance objectives and evaluation of all activities to customer satisfaction.
• Make teams, not individuals, the focus of organizational performance and design.
• Combine managerial and non-managerial activities as often as possible.
• Emphasize that each employee should develop several competencies.
• Inform and train people on a just-in-time, need-to-perform basis.
• Maximize supplier and customer contact with everyone in the organization.
• Reward individual skill development and team performance instead of individual
performance alone”
- Unknown
“It’s always worthwhile to
make others aware of their
worth.”
- Malcolm FORBES
“Management is nothing more
than motivating other people.”
- John WOODEN
“People do not live by bread
alone. They need buttering up
every once in a while.”
- ANONYMOUS
“Three Key Management Principles:
1. Focus on products instead of profits, and the latter will
follow.
2. Give your people a say in running the show, and a share
in the rewards as well.
3. Be consistent. When you lead an organization and you’re
trying to change its culture, you have to keep hammering
home the same points over and over.”
- Mark H. McCORMACK
“To manage a business well is
to manage its future; and to
manage the future is to
manage information.”
- Marion HARPER
“Customer service isn’t a
stand-alone department...it is
a strategic tool for managing
the entire customer
relationship.”
- Ab AT & T Manager