Robert Heller Quotes

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

Fear is excitement without breath.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Think before you act: it's not your money.

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.