Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

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.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

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

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

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

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

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

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.