Management Quotes - page 4

When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business. (Jack McDevitt)
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. View quote
Ted Engstrom
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual. View quote
Peter Drucker
I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." View quote
Peter Drucker
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. (Peter Drucker)
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management. View quote
Peter Drucker
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution. View quote
Peter Drucker
[[Management] has authority only as long as it performs. View quote
Peter Drucker
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution. View quote
Peter Drucker
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. View quote
Peter Drucker
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. View quote
Peter Drucker
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior. View quote
Peter Drucker
...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it. View quote
Peter Drucker
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. View quote
Peter Drucker
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. (Niklaus Wirth)
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. [...] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. View quote
Fred Brooks
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative” to determine the products. View quote
Paul Goodman
[O]ur élite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial élite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function. View quote
John Ralston Saul