Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. By Rene Descartes Advice, Management, Problem solving
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. By FRED ALLEN, CHAIRMAN OF PITNEY-BOWES CO. Business, Employees, Management, Partnership
Any company … needs a strong, unifying sense of direction. But that need is particularly strong in an organization in which tasks are differentiated and responsibilities dispersed. By CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT Business, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Vision
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it! By TIBERIUS CAESAR Business, Leadership, Management
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there. By KENNETH H. BLANCHARD Business, Leadership, Management
Once somebody asked me to identify the single most useful management technique that I learned through my years of managing. My answer was “The practice of regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings.” By ANDREW S. GROVE Business, Management
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. By Theodore Roosevelt Business, Good person, Humble, Leadership, Management
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. By Bertrand Russell Hard work, Management
Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t. By PETER DRUCKER Business, Goals, Management, Success
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. By Upton Sinclair Business, Management
Men are going to learn to be managers in a world where the organization will come close to consisting of all chiefs and one Indian. The Indian, of course, is the computer. By Thomas L. Whisler Bosses, Computers, Management, Technology
The brand of leadership we propose has a simple base of MBWA (Managing by Wandering Around). To “wander” with customers and vendors and our own people is to be in touch with the very first vibrations of the new. By Thomas J. Peters and Nancy K. Austin Bosses, Leadership, Management
Of course in selecting staff I shall make a few bad decisions. After all, Jesus Christ had to make twelve appointments and one of them was a bummer. By Ted Turner Bosses, Leadership, Management
