Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.
I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.
I like to space out my work.
Trying to work out my schedule is hard but I'm lucky I have two great teams who take care of it all.
Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.
We carry out our work under the leadership of the government.
I don't even have a management team. I have people managing my work but there are limitations when it comes to projects.
The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.
