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Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. -- Mitch Kapor
In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job. -- Mary Cunningham Agee
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. -- John Naisbitt
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. -- Dennis Ritchie
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general. -- Ronald Perelman
I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football. -- Alan Shearer
At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it. -- John Caudwell
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. -- Alexander Dubcek
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally. -- John Naisbitt
Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. -- Brad Stone
As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise. -- Wen Jiabao
My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos. -- Rick Perlstein
Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart. -- Yolanda Adams
The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense -- Don Watson
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period. -- Tom Peters
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. -- Arnold Weinstock
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. -- Rands
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities. -- John Kao
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. -- Tom Peters
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. -- Peter Drucker
PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow. -- Brian L. Joiner
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. -- Peter Drucker
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. -- Richard Koch
A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure. -- R. Edward Freeman
A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else. -- Jack Welch
Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions. -- Peter Drucker
In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude. -- Peter Drucker
The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism. -- Judith Butler
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves. -- Erich Fromm
Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do. -- Henry Mintzberg
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses. -- Peter Drucker
[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want. -- James Black
I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is that it's a very, very pragmatic job, and writing isn't. -- Charlie Kaufman

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