The moment has no time.
Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
What's less well known is that the CIA's executive management staff is far more concerned with selecting the right candidates to serve as CIA officers than it is about selecting agents overseas. The CIA dedicates a huge portion of its budget figuring how to select, control, and manage its own work force. It begins with instilling blind obedience. Most CIA officers consider themselves to be soldiers. The CIA is set up as a military organization with a sacred chain of command that cannot be violated. Somebody tells you what to do, and you salute and do it. Or you're out.
Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.
I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.
As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.
The extraordinary business does not require good management.
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
