Managers Quotes
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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.
Kevin Keegan
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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.
Edwin Catmull
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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.
Elinor Ostrom
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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.
Steve Kerr
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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.
Reed Hastings
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
Anthony Stafford Beer
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Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Alan Pardew
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
George Steinbrenner
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Simon Mawer
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The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
Estelle Parsons
