It Management Quotes

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving. ~ Pearl Zhu

The "Art of Possible" can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT management. ~ Pearl Zhu

Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization. ~ Pearl Zhu

Quality must be enforced, otherwise it won't happen. We programmers must be required to write tests, otherwise we won't do it. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible. ~ Pearl Zhu

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. ~ Hans Blix

Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach and develop it into a more solid form. ~ Pearl Zhu

Organizational success comes when IT and business act from "IT vs. business" to IT is business" - a true partnership. ~ Pearl Zhu

Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you must ask not only what fruit they bring to the world, but what fruit they yield on the inside of your life and your heart. I ~ Shauna Niequist

It is time to "align IT to the customer" rather than "align IT with the business. ~ Pearl Zhu

IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator. ~ Pearl Zhu

Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu

A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: Speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity, etc ~ Pearl Zhu

IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually. ~ Pearl Zhu

Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body. ~ Pearl Zhu

Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner. ~ Pearl Zhu

It's impossible to change the management system without changing the managers who built it. The management is the product of people who created it. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame. ~ Pearl Zhu

To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort. ~ Pearl Zhu

In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value. ~ Pearl Zhu

The foremost thing is to realize that IT is strategic at board level. ~ Pearl Zhu

IT is part of business, and business is becoming IT. ~ Pearl Zhu

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. ~ Solomon

By teaching twenty-something year olds responsible debt management practices, we can help them create a balanced lifestyle and find peace of mind through increased financial awareness, smart saving and long-term investing. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands,individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity. ~ Ben Horowitz

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style ~ Tony Dovale

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination ~ David Moffett

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. ~ Ram Shriram

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them. ~ Olaf Stapledon

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that. ~ Pat Travers

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

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives. ~ Heather Simmons

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch. ~ Joyce Rachelle

So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo. ~ David Foster Wallace

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. ~ Robert Herrick

You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone. ~ Robert J. Braathe

The Four Keys of Great Managers:
1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination."
2. "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps."
3. "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses."
4. "When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder. ~ Marcus Buckingham

If management is people, management must become humanagement ~ Jonas Ridderstrale

24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing. ~ Nike Thaddeus

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management. ~ Letitia Baldrige

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. ~ Warren Buffett

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. ~ Max McKeown

What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change. ~ Jim Highsmith

Jews believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation. ~ H.W. Charles

So in a man's mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don't trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered. ~ Geoffrey Wood

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across
hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me. ~ Rick Riordan

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young. ~ Sukant Ratnakar

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession. ~ Wendy Kopp

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn. ~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. ~ James C. Collins

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product. ~ W. Edwards Deming

On the basis of capitalist production, a new swindle with the wages of management develops in connection with joint-stock companies, in that, over and above the actual managing director, a number of governing and supervisory boards arise, for which management and supervision are in fact a mere pretext for the robbery of shareholders and their own enrichment. ~ Karl Marx

Teach a child stress management and how to deal with his anger from very young and you will have one very successful child. ~ Timothy Pina

Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances. ~ Robin Sharma

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies. ~ John Paul DeJoria

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure. ~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Whenever you feel tension mounting up, just smile: you will break the force of tension. ~ Dada J. P. Vaswani

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.' ~ Maurice Flanagan

Human Resources management is a skill ingrained with an art to execute. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results. ~ Eraldo Banovac

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions. ~ Karlie Kloss

Many times people living on street become source of inspirations. When in New Delhi often when your vehicle stops at red lights, small kids living on streets asking for money surrounds you & some of them with smiling face which makes me think if these people in this condition (when they are not even sure if they would get enough to eat today) can keep smiling face, can't I keep myself up during difficult time and this perspective often works. Subodh Gupta ~ Subodh Gupta

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo ~ Phil Harding