What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Ambrose Bierce Bosses, Delegate, Management You May Also Like Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. By PETER DRUCKER Management, Time Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. By FRED ALLEN, CHAIRMAN OF PITNEY-BOWES CO. Business, Employees, Management, Partnership 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 On a good day, I view the job [of president of Yale] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch—engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. By A. Bartlett Giamatti Bosses, Leadership, Management An important task of a manager is to reduce his people’s excuses for failure. By Robert Townsend Business, Management If my boss calls, be sure to get his name. By Comment of ABC executive, quoted by William Rukeyser in report on rapid personnel shifts Bosses, Management You May Also Like from Ambrose Bierce Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. By Ambrose Bierce Corporation, Profit, Responsibility Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money Disobedience: the silver lining to the cloud of servitude. By Ambrose Bierce Disobedience Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. By Ambrose Bierce Boredom
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. By FRED ALLEN, CHAIRMAN OF PITNEY-BOWES CO. Business, Employees, Management, Partnership
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
On a good day, I view the job [of president of Yale] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch—engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. By A. Bartlett Giamatti Bosses, Leadership, Management
An important task of a manager is to reduce his people’s excuses for failure. By Robert Townsend Business, Management
If my boss calls, be sure to get his name. By Comment of ABC executive, quoted by William Rukeyser in report on rapid personnel shifts Bosses, Management
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. By Ambrose Bierce Corporation, Profit, Responsibility
Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith
Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money
Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic
