Management And Leadership Quotes

Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly. ~ Pearl Zhu

Surrounding yourself with 'yes' people is like talking to yourself. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. ~ Robert Townsend

At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity... ~ Sandhya Jane

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders. ~ Sue Tetzlaff

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of communityship. ~ Henry Mintzberg

Every effective winning strategy is mapped out by focusing on the desired end goal. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it. ~ Paul Gitwaza

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

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past. ~ Avinash Narula

Once you expect great things from yourself, anything is possible. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind. ~ Margaret Heffernan

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. ~ Ron Suskind

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

MERIT AND HARMONY PROMOTE MOBILISATION ~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges. ~ Omer Soker

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness ~ Rajasaraswathii

Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony. ~ Pearl Zhu

We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Leadership is service, not position. ~ Tim Fargo

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations ~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

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. ~ Anna Stevens

If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Maybe this is the case for many of us: No matter who we become or what we accomplish, we still feel that we're essentially the kid we were at some simpler time long ago. Somehow that's the trick of leadership, too, I think, to hold on to that awareness of yourself even as the world tells you how powerful and important you are. The moment you start to believe it all too much, the moment you look yourself in the mirror and see a title emblazoned on your forehead, you've lost your way. That may be the hardest but also the most necessary lesson to keep in mind, that wherever you are along the path, you're the same person you've always been. ~ Robert Iger

Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. ~ Anna Stevens

Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management. ~ Moutasem Algharati

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication. ~ Winston Churchill

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it. ~ Gary L. Graybill

By telling you that you can transform your non-talents into talents, these less effective managers are not only setting you up to fail, they are intrinsically blaming you for your inevitable failure. This is perverse. ~ Gallup Press

To make technical decisions, a result-oriented team needs a strong architect and a decision making process, not meetings. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management. ~ Rehan Waris

Every conflict must produce a win-win outcome and must never be resolved through a compromise, which makes both sides suffer in some way. Even forcing one side to do what the other side wants is better than a compromise. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible and solid as those around him were volatile. His background was in television; he had been president of the ABC network, which was acquired in 1996 by Disney. His reputation was as an corporate suit, and he excelled at deft management, but he also had a sharp eye for talent, a good-humored ability to understand people, and a quiet flair that he was secure enough to keep muted. Unlike Eisner and Jobs, he had a disciplined calm, which helped him deal with large egos. " Steve did some grandstanding by announcing that he was ending talks with us," Iger later recalled. " We went into crisis mode and I developed some talking points to settle things down. ~ Walter Isaacson

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose. ~ Omer Soker

When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you. ~ Dorethia Conner Kelly

Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals. ~ Shawn Casemore

Mastery is more than the co-ordination of muscle and bone. It is about bringing the whole of us to what we do ~ Debashis Chatterjee

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

In one study investigating employee experiences with speaking up, 85% of respondents reported at least one occasion when they felt unable to raise a concern with their bosses, even though they believed the issue was important. ~ Amy C. Edmondson

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

I have observed an analogy between a force field equilibrium and resistance to change in organizations. Let us imagine change to be a coiled spring in a field of opposing forces, such that some forces support change and others resist it. By increasing supporting forces such as supervisory pressure, prospects of career growth and monetary benefits or decreasing the resisting forces such as group norms, social rewards and work avoidance, the situation can be directed towards the desired result - but for a short time only, and that too only to a certain extent. After a while the resisting forces push back with greater force as they are compressed even more tightly. Therefore, a better approach would be to decrease the resisting force in such a manner that there is no concomitant increase in the supporting forces. In this way, less energy will be needed to bring about and maintain change.
The result of the forces i mentioned above, is motive. ~ Arun Tiwari

If you are paying someone to motivate you (seriously), you should rather pay to a psychiatrist. ~ Anupam S Shlok

In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem. ~ Ben Horowitz

Remember There's No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames ~ Donald J. Trump

It was as though most managers in the world were primarily interested either in results or in people. The managers who were interested in results often seemed to be labeled "autocratic," while the managers interested in people were often labeled "democratic." The young man thought each of these managers - the "tough" autocrat and the "nice" democrat - were only partially effective. "It's like being half a manager," he thought. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

When you put yourself in the other person's shoes, you can see that the person critiquing you is merely trying to help. ~ Fran Hauser

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

To master the virtual equation and make all the elements work together, you have to become the connector. In fact, your greatest role as a virtual manager is to link the various parts of his/her team to accomplish the goals that lead to its formation in the first place. You may need to shift gears, perform ream tune-ups, realign, and refuel your team's energy along the way. ~ Yael Zofi

Persistence is useful if you are trying to learn a new skill or acquire particular knowledge...but persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ~ Gallup Press

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders.
Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company ~ Daniel H. Pink

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry. ~ James MacDonald

You cannot evaluate the effectiveness of an objective, if you cannot comprehend the blueprint of the vision. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided. ~ Mark W. Boyer

A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future. ~ Abhishek Ratna

MERIT IS A PRODUCT OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSPARENCY ~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership. ~ Marcus Buckingham

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around. ~ Pearl Zhu

All decisions are taken two levels above the highest level of understanding ~ David K. Brown

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Fixing the system without fixing people that work in it would be a huge trauma for them; they will do everything they can to prevent it from happening. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well. ~ Ed Catmull

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course. ~ Dennis Cardoza

The little blue book was rattling around in my purse. I took it out and turned to the last thing he had said ("You stupid broad et cetera). Underneath was written Girl backs down
cries
manhood vindicated. Under "Real Fight With Girl" was written Don't hurt (except whores). I took out my own pink book, for we all carry them, and turning to the instructions under "Brutality" found:
Man's bad temper is the woman's fault. It is also the woman's responsibility to patch things up afterwards.
There were sub-rubrics, one (reinforcing) under "Management" and one (exceptional) under "Martyrdom." Everything in my book begins with an M. ~ Joanna Russ

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel ... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. ~ Laozi

Comparison kills...There will always be someone ahead of you and someone behind you in life...When you see someone behind you...feel blessed for you are ahead of them...When you see someone ahead of you...feel inspired for your own growth...Compare yourself to YOU of yesterday, if that's what you like to do...so you can become better today ! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. ~ Bill Murray

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it. ~ Harry S. Truman

While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. ~ Susan Cain

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing. ~ Kent Beck

I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks.
His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have. ~ Christopher Michael Cillizza

If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question. ~ T.A. Uner

Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry. ~ George H. W. Bush

From the first, I realized that being organized was the key to real compassion. There was a natural tendency for Annie, me, and other key leaders to flock to the bedsides of injured paratroopers or spend time with grieving, frightened family members. But organizing and focusing the paratroopers and spouses of the battalion allowed us to have a greater impact. ~ Stanley McChrystal

The message was crystal clear: the Beltway - right, left, and center - is an unprincipled swamp. Its denizens spend most of their time raising money to keep the lights on. The creative fires do not burn here. Those who light them are quickly sent home. Others lose heart working long hours for bad pay under indifferent management. Meanwhile, the cynical and soulless all too often find their way to promotions and permanent positions in the oligarchy. ~ James O'Keefe

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ~ George Will

Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it. ~ Eddie Vedder

If Lee had an example of perfect leadership, it was in the man that he most wanted to follow himself, the God-Man of the New Testament. From Him, and from the social tradition of noblesse oblige in which Lee was raised, Lee developed a particular abhorrence of selfishness. ~ H.W. Crocker III

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach. ~ Konosuke Matsushita

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. ~ Philip Selznick

The purpose of logistics management is to plan and coordinate all those activities necessary to achieve desired levels of delivered service and quality at lowest possible cost. ~ SATISH C. AILAWADI

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God? ~ Francis Chan

Motupi was a five-year-old chimpanzee with severe anger-management issues. He had recently arrived at FunJungle, and while he behaved normally most of the time, every now and then he would have massive emotional eruptions. During these, he would tear up the landscaping, threaten the other chimps, and throw anything he could get his hands on - which was usually his own poop. FunJungle employees had started calling him Furious George. ~ Stuart Gibbs

You should always be prepared to defend your choices, whether just to yourself (sometimes this is the hardest) or to your coworkers, your friends, or your family. The quickest way for people to lose confidence in your ability to ever make a decision is for you to pass the buck, shrug your shoulders, or otherwise wuss out. Learning how to become a decision maker, and how you ultimately justify your choices, can define who you are. ~ Alyssa Mastromonaco

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa? ~ Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Redefine Yourself will help you overcome the obstacles that have plagued your life. You will incorporate new adaptive strategies that will not only change your life, but also positively impact those people around you. You will truly redefine yourself and achieve the happiness you've always wanted. You might just achieve that long list of other wants too. ~ Michael Moody

The religious leaders of the day had written the script for the Messiah. When Jesus announced he was the Messiah, the Pharisees and others screamed at him, "There is no Jesus in the Messiah script. Messiahs do not hang out with losers. Our Messiah does not break all the rules, Our Messiah does not question our leadership or threaten our religion or act so irresponsibly. Our Messiah does not disregard his reputation, befriend riffraff, or frequent the haunts of questionable people." Jesus' reply? "This Messiah does"! Do you see why Christianity is called "good news"? Christianity proclaims that it is an equal-opportunity faith, open to all, in spite of the abundance of playwrights in the church who are more than anxious to announce, "There is no place for you in Christianity if you [wear an earring/have a tattoo/drink wine/have too many questions/look weird/smoke/dance/haven't been filled with the Spirit/aren't baptized/swear/have pink hair/are in the wrong ethnic group/have a nose ring/have had an abortion/are gay or lesbian/are too conservative or too liberal]. ~ Mike Yaconelli

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa? ~ Archibald Marwizi

Hundreds of studies have shown that people overrate their health, leadership ability, intelligence, professional competence, sporting prowess, and managerial skills. People also hold the nonsensical belief that they are inherently lucky. Most people think they are more likely than the average person to attain a good first job, to have gifted children, and to live to a ripe old age. They also think that they are less likely than the average person to be the victim of an accident, crime, disease, depression, unwanted pregnancy, or earthquake. Why ~ Steven Pinker

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential. ~ Tony Dungy

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles. ~ Awdhesh Singh

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests. ~ Paul A. Baran