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Tag Name "Managers" (296)

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Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
Lee Bolman
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Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in the way that they're supposed to, but it's different when your manager is your husband. It's contrary to your soul. That commercial interest presses in upon your whole personal life.
Liz Garbus
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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.
John Gokongwei
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Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.
James O'Toole
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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.
Warren Buffett
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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.
Russell L. Ackoff
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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
Warren Buffett
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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.
Henry Mintzberg
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Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.
Dov Frohman
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.
Adrian Gostick
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Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Daniel Kahneman
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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.
Jodi Rell
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Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
John P. Kotter
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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.
Karl E. Weick
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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
Warren Buffett
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Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.
Shona Brown
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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.
Robert Heller
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Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
Robert Townsend
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
Russell L. Ackoff
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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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.
Marcus Buckingham
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