Management Mistakes Quotes

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.