Management sayings

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◆ Managers must understand the key to maintain their personnel are job satisfaction and expectations. If these are not met, they will eventually face turnover. Do not focus on external factors because you will soon be blind by the internal which are essentially destroying the team.

- Michael Sotelo99

◆ You can change only what people know, not what they do.

- Scott Adams99

◆ The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided.

- Casey Stengal99

◆ I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

- Tim Gould99

◆ I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

- Chuck Tanner99

◆ A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.

- H S M Burns99

◆ The smaller the function, the greater the management.

- C Northcote Parkinson99

◆ Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

- Donald Rumsfeld99

◆ If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

- Casey Stengel99

◆ Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

- Peter F Drucker99

◆ "Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

- Robert Townsend99

◆ The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

- Agha Hasan Abedi99

◆ Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen R Covey99

◆ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

- Paul Hawken99

◆ Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

- Colin Powell99