Quotes about management-and-leadership

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team.

We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.

Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness

No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

Most people do not see their words as power.

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

Leadership is service, not position.

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessar

whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

All decisions are taken two levels above the highest level of understanding

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

Problem is a outcome. "Of What?", Is the right question

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.

Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.