Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.
By all indications, American business leaders are more adept at creating business strategies than they are skilled at human capital management. American entrepreneurs are world-beaters when it comes to creating new businesses, and corporate managers are adept at using the latest marketing, financial, and technological practices.
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave
To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.
My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.
Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.
There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future
Managers control. Leaders create commitment.
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.