C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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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.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
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When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
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If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.
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To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.
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I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
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I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
