management effectiveness Quotes

What gets measured gets done.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

No amount of congressional supervision will render our Nation's intelligence efforts effective if the people who are managing these efforts ... are ineffective.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible!

As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.