Quotes about manager

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

Christians should be good managers and stewards of God’s riches

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.

Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

Development in general doesn’t make you better employee or better manager. Development makes you a better human who is able to invest the best in you to add beauty and meaning to your life and the rest of the world.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.

Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among her subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

Me myself is enough to manage.

A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.

A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.

A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

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.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

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

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.

There are two types of silly bosses: one is the too kind boss and another, the evil boss

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. “Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well,” he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. “You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it’s a disease. We have university students protesting every few weeks or so… stra

Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.