Managers Quotes
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These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.
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WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.
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What I love about Coulson is that he manages to do that and he manages to wrangle the diva superheroes, and really keep a sense of humor about it. And, you can tell that he really loves his job.
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It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
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The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
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I've been unlucky because I've had a few ups and downs with different managers but I would say I've never been out of shape.
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Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.
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Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.
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Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
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I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
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Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.
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An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
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Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
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The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with Larry Holmes. That would have made all the difference.
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
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The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
