33 Quotes Tagged: management

Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediatekt at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and with parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, on makes the best contribution possible to one's state.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

What's measured improves

Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state.

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

No matter how narrow our perceptions become in the daily obsessions of the organization, there is no such thing as a life lived only within an organization. There are other necessities calling us to a much greater participation than any corporation can offer. The most efficiently run, streamlined organization, the best-groomed, most-organized executive is interwoven with the ragged vagaries of creation, and despite our best attempts to anchor ourselves in the concrete foundations of profitability and permanence, we remain forever at the whim, mercy, and pleasure of the wind-blown world.

Ironically, we bring more vitality into our organizations when we refuse to make their goals the measure of our success and start to ask about the greater goals they might serve, and when we stop looking to them as parents who will supply necessities we can only obtain when we wrestle directly with our own destiny.

In a sense, we place the same burdens on our organizational life as we place on the rest of our existence. We feel there is something wrong at the center of it all, and we have to put it right. We are forever looking for a cure for our ills. We do this by placing ourselves in the position of manager, of thus managing change. Unless it is managed, something is wrong. But our real unconscious and underlying wish is to find a cure for the impermanence of life, and for that there is no remedy. Most of the difficulties we confront at work are no different from those human beings have been dealing with for millenia. Life is full of loneliness, failure, grief, and loss to an extent that terrifies us, and we will do anything to will ourselves another existence.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success — or the most to lose from failure.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.