Senior Management Quotes

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management. ~ Mary Schapiro

Some people are natural inventors who prefer to work without the pressure and expectations of the later business phases. Others are ambitious and see innovation as a path toward senior management. Still others are particularly skilled at the management of running an established business, outsourcing, and bolstering efficiencies and wringing out cost reductions. People should be allowed to find the kinds of jobs that suit them best. ~ Eric Ries

There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret. ~ Peter Macinnis

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other. ~ Sam Walton

One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely success. Did they hire superstar entrepreneurs from outside the company? No, they assembled a team from within Intuit. Did they face constant meddling from senior management, which is the bane of innovation teams in many companies? No, their executive sponsors created an "island of freedom" where they could experiment as necessary. Did they have a huge team, a large budget, and lots of marketing dollars? Nope, they started with a team of five. What allowed the SnapTax team to innovate was not their genes, destiny, or astrological signs but a process deliberately facilitated by Intuit's senior management. ~ Eric Ries

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Senior management approval and buy-in is essential to the success of the overall BCP effort. If possible, you should attempt to have the plan endorsed by the top executive in your business - the chief executive officer, chairman, president, or similar business leader. This move demonstrates the importance of the plan to the entire organization and showcases the business leader's commitment to business continuity. The signature of such an individual on the plan also gives it much greater weight and credibility in the eyes of other senior managers, who might otherwise brush it off as a necessary but trivial IT initiative. ~ James Michael Stewart

The high performing board shows the ability and openness to "question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

The entrepreneur must hire and delegate to senior management the responsibility of implementing and managing this control system. For many entrepreneurs, delegating constitutes the most personally challenging transition. Primarily, they fear losing control of a firm they've built from the ground up. Yet delegating to senior management is, in truth, the only way to gain back control. ~ Doug Tatum

In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%). ~ Dave Ulrich

The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real "thought partners" with senior management as they consider the longer-term goals beyond quarterly earnings. ~ Pearl Zhu

Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors? ~ Gracia Martore

Look at the stealth and sophistication of foreign nation state APTs who break through even the most sophisticated layers of security daily and tell me why they would just give our completely unprotected election systems a pass ~ James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute For Critical Infrastructure Technology

Senior year is supposed to be a blast-easy and fun. So far it's been anything but. ~ Simone Elkeles

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life. ~ Amy Chua

Management is the art of getting things done through people. ~ Mary Parker Follett

You don't think that perhaps you have anger management issues?"
"Punching people is managing my anger. ~ Suzanne Wrightt

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit. ~ Joyce Rachelle

They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your management of the information that you have will determine whether God will trust you or not with His mysteries. ~ Dr Paul Gitwaza

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits ~ Winston Churchill

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation ~ Richard Branson

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. ~ Nora Ephron

Work-life balance. This is another touchstone of supposedly "enlightened" management practices that can be insulting to smart, dedicated employees. The phrase itself is part of the problem: For many people, work is an important part of life, not something to be separated. The best cultures invite and enable people to be overworked in a good way, with too many interesting things to do both at work and at home. ~ Eric Schmidt

More often than not, the secret of success lies in the very basic the very small wins. The small, consistent and disciplined steps lead to big successes. ~ Abhishek Ratna

If you don't take care of your money your money won't take care of you. ~ Mac Duke The Strategist

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes ~ Peter Lynch

people who says they are running out of time, I think they don't know how to manage tasks/work and to prioritize it. ~ Kurbhatt

To do a modest bit of good while doing nothing about the larger system is to keep the painting. You are chewing on the fruit of an injustice. You may be working on a prison education program, but you are choosing not to prioritize the pursuit of wage and labor laws that would make people's lives more stable and perhaps keep some of them out of jail. You may be sponsoring a loan forgiveness initiative for law school students, but you are choosing not to prioritize seeking a tax code that would take more from you and cut their debts. Your management consulting firm may be writing reports about unlocking trillions of dollars' worth of women's potential, but it is choosing not to advise its clients to stop lobbying against the social programs that have been shown in other societies to help women achieve the equality fantasized about in consultants' reports. ~ Anand Giridharadas

I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England. ~ Carole Mortimer

It was a Friday morning, and Walmart was populated only by the occasional mom with very young children and the random senior citizen, which made my bathroom makeover less conspicuous. Only one woman came in while I stood in front of the mirror, and she went straight to the toilets. I made sure that when she came out I was no longer standing in front of the mirror but was huddled with my palms stretched out beneath a loud hand dryer, my face completely averted. No one expects to see a celebrity in their local Walmart bathroom. Most of us don't really look at each other anyway. Our eyes glance off without really registering what we're seeing. It's human nature. It's polite society. Ignore each other unless someone is grotesquely fat or immodestly dressed or disfigured in some way - and then we pretend not to see, but we see everything. I was none of those things, and so far human nature was working in my favor. ~ Amy Harmon

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. ~ Walt Whitman

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is. ~ Toni Sorenson

Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. ~ Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management. ~ Jim Clemmer

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~ Paul Singer

In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues. ~ Kofi Annan

The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland. ~ Joe Hill

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time. ~ Onyi Anyado

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. ~ Peter Drucker

I will marry a man who is clever and thoughtful and who wants his wife to be more than just the most senior of his servants. ~ Ken Follett

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices. ~ Benjamin Graham

Sometimes procrastination of one second can shut the door of success ~ Myra Yadav

We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases. ~ C. West Churchman

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job. ~ Akio Morita

As we don't live in a perfect world, try to spend 80% of your time doing important but not urgent activities ~ Eddie De Jong

Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines. ~ Pearl Zhu

There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision. ~ Criss Jami

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it. ~ Lady Gregory

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible. ~ W. Edwards Deming