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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker
Management must manage! -- Harold Geneen
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. -- Lee Iacocca
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. -- Stephen Covey
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet -- Henry Mintzberg
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. -- Tom Peters
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. -- Peter Drucker
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. -- Stephen Covey
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. -- Paul Hawken
Management is prediction. -- W. Edwards Deming
Management by Walking Around -- David Packard
Management should have goals. -- Sunday Adelaja
Management is simple, innovation is hard. -- James Cook
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. -- W. Edwards Deming
Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Management does not know what a system is. -- W. Edwards Deming
Management has to be where the action is. -- Dieter Zetsche
Multilevel multitasking multiplied multiple times is Event Management. -- Rehan Waris
Life is Time Management and then you're dead. -- V. Vale
Management's job is to optimize the whole system. -- W. Edwards Deming
Management has authority only as long as it performs. -- Peter Drucker
Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem. -- Randall Dale Adams
People work in the system. Management creates the system -- W. Edwards Deming
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success -- Stephen Covey
Management is not a science, it is an art. -- Michael Eisner
Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. -- Peter Drucker
What I do will be straight up. Management knows that. -- Carmelo Anthony
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations, -- Barry Boehm
Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes. -- W. Edwards Deming
Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs. -- Robert Heller
Management is the art of getting things done through people. -- Mary Parker Follett
Management means the development of people, not the direction of things. -- Bob Proctor
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, -- Clayton Christensen
Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow. -- Scott Adams
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour. -- Obie Trice
We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual. -- W. Edwards Deming
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it. -- Tom DeMarco
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work -- William Feather
The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management! -- W. Edwards Deming
Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not. -- Jay Watson
Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not. -- W. Edwards Deming
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business -- Charlie Munger
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. -- W. Edwards Deming
The Three Keys to Success by Ken Poirot: 1) Goal Setting 2) Time Management 3) Life Skills -- Ken Poirot
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution. -- John Tusa
And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed. -- Donny Deutsch
Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. -- W. Edwards Deming
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. -- Sun Tzu
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. -- Stephen Covey
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. -- Clayton Christensen
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense -- Henry Mintzberg
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. -- Jack Welch
Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right. -- Meek Mill
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. -- Brian Tracy
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of "communityship. -- Henry Mintzberg
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God. -- Maimonides
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand -- Lanny Bassham
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. -- Pat Riley
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. -- Clayton Christensen
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things. -- Dean Kamen
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.' -- Brian Posehn
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing. -- Kent Beck
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them. -- Steven Sinofsky
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. -- Robert McNamara
Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so. -- Peter Drucker
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. -- Tina Brown
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. -- James D. Robinson III
Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you. -- Alan Shearer
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard. -- Gary Hamel
Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back"So they've invented a new acronym. -- Connie Willis
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else! -- Ron Livingston
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't. -- Kenny Dalglish
On 'Awake,' we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on 'Anger Management,' we can take maybe 10 minutes on a scene if we're lucky. -- Daniela Bobadilla
I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake,' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger Management,' that's my comedy. -- Daniela Bobadilla
I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I've told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled. -- Jeff Greene
Management has no divine rights. -- Walter Reuther
Real management is developing people through work. -- Agha Hasan Abedi
I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities. -- Tory Burch
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got. -- Jim Rohn
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. -- John le Carre
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. -- Warren Bennis
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. -- Gary Hamel
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. -- John Ruskin
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. -- John D. Rockefeller
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. -- Anthea Turner
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -- Ambrose Bierce
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. -- James Cash Penney
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. -- Peter Drucker
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. -- Colin Powell
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. -- Agha Hasan Abedi
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan. -- Katherine Tate
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. -- Dave Barry
I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management. -- Michelle Williams
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur. -- Jon Porter
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. -- Jack Welch
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone. -- Marissa Mayer
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. -- John C. Maxwell
I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job. -- Alex Ferguson
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. -- Marilu Henner
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. -- Steve Jobs
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. -- Colin Powell
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle
I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management. -- James Belushi
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. -- Blake Shelton
There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition. -- Suzy Menkes
As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? -- Michael Porter
Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. -- Jack Welch
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. -- Carl Honore
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong. -- Henry Mintzberg

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