Scott Adams Quotes

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

The first problem is too many workers. The second problem is having fools and crooks as managers.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them.

Secrecy cannot be used to cover up bad management.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

We have leadership—there's just no followership.

But in all cases when you have problems in your interactions with your boss, there's one more question you have to ask yourself: To what extent is your boss at fault, and to what extent are you a neophyte about supervisor-subordinate relationships?

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.