Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Management must manage!

Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.