The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
Unknown
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted W. Engstrom
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
Horace
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 Powell
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 Hawken
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen R. Covey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey