Management Quotes
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Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.
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We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.
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I was a business management major.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.
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I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
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In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
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Windows has gone from being a laggard in management to a leader. System Center is at the center, and Windows is key, but the learning we share together as people that drives us forward.
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Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
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Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity
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My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.
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It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.
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We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.
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Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
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A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
