QUOTES ABOUT MANAGEMENT
The first rule of decision making: do not make a decision until you hear opinions that contradict yours.
Peter F. Drucker "The Effective Leader"
Management is not possible where there is no task requiring interaction
Isaac Adizes “Management styles - effective and ineffective”
There are three secrets of management. The first secret is to have patience. Second, be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner
Not having enough people is better than having the wrong people.
Greg McKeon "Essentialism" The path to simplicity"
Every management has the team it deserves.
Tom Peters
No matter how wonderful a person is, if no one follows him, he is definitely not a leader.
Ira Chaleff "Conscious disobedience. How to respond to controversial orders"
Top management should spend 40-50 percent of their time training and motivating their people.
Buck Rogers
To be successful you don't have to be smarter than others, you just have to be a day faster than most.
Leo Szilard
You can achieve anything in life as long as it doesn't matter to you who gets the credit.
Jim Collins "Good to Great" Why do some companies make breakthroughs and others don't..."
The main mistake is to do well what should not be done at all.
Vyacheslav Makovich, Leonid Petrov “Make a name for yourself! Building a personal brand"
A manager should not manage anything for more than five or six years. Otherwise, he runs out of steam, loses interest in the matter and becomes a prisoner of his own patterns, which were revolutionary ideas when he headed the organization.
Robert Townsend
To create a high-performing organization, you need to replace power with responsibility.
Peter Drucker
If I can't control [subordinates], then maybe I can motivate them. What does this remind you of? Manipulation.
Isaac Adizes "Managing Change"
An indicator of quality management is ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Peter Drucker
If there is no decision maker on the team, then decisions will never be made.
Peter Drucker
Repeated crises are just a symptom of negligence and laziness.
Peter Drucker
The less effort an organization has to put in to get results, the better it does its job.
Peter Drucker
There are five basic techniques, “five habits,” that a leader must develop in order to work effectively. 1. Effective leaders know how their time is spent. They work systematically to manage the small portion of their time that they actually have control over. 2. Effective leaders focus on achievements that extend beyond their organizations. They are not focused on doing the work itself, but on the end result. Before starting any task, an effective leader asks himself the question: “What results are expected of me?” The process of work itself, not to mention the specific methods of its implementation, fades into the background for him. 3. Effective leaders develop strengths - their own, their bosses, colleagues, subordinates. In difficult situations, they rely on their strengths and do not focus on their weaknesses. They don't start with problems they can't solve. 4. Effective leaders focus on the largest few areas where excellent performance will lead to outstanding results. They force themselves to set priorities and stick to their decisions. They know that they have no choice but to deal with the most important things first and never deal with the unimportant ones. Otherwise nothing will be done. 5. Finally, effective leaders make effective decisions. They know that good decisions are nothing more than a system - a series of right steps in the right sequence. They know that an effective decision is always a judgment based on “dissenting opinions” and not on “consensus of facts.” And they know that a quick decision is a wrong decision. There should be few solutions, but fundamental ones. What is needed is proper strategy, not inventive tactics.
Peter Drucker
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effectively working leaders more than careful use of time. Therefore, an effective leader who knows how to manage his time first determines as accurately as possible how his time is actually spent.
Peter Drucker
No crisis is similar to the other, but each of them is based on the same reason: during a period of prosperity, people tend to believe that the favorable time will not dry up and will last in the even longer term.
Alan Greenspan
Management is like skiing. You don't become a super skier by reading a ski book. Management is learned over time by managing larger and larger groups of people, making more and more difficult decisions, and living with those decisions.
Michael Bloomberg
If you are bombarded with fashionable terms about “time windows”, “sprint”, “scrum”, there is no need to have any illusions. Many managers, in principle, do not understand what it is and manage as usual.
Dmitry Vasilievich Breytenbicher
A good manager is an employee who can tell his superiors in such a way that they will give him a bonus for his rationalization proposal.
Alexey Kalinin
When unraveling the secret of managers' success, it is worth looking not at the solution, but at the method that allowed it to be reached.
Justin Menkes
Management is the art of achieving goals under conditions of limited resources.
Terry Alexander Gibson
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Bertrand Russell, English mathematician, philosopher, and public figure “In life it is always useful to question from time to time what has been considered an axiom from time immemorial”
J. Kay “Competitive advantage arises not because we follow a path successfully trodden by others, but because we follow a path that is not available to others.”
Thoreau Henry David, American writer, thinker, public figure “The capabilities of man have not yet been measured. We cannot judge them based on previous experience - the person has not yet dared so much."
Peter Schulz, ex-president of Porsche “When nothing changes, mediocrity comes forward”
Peter Vrica, Ph.D., World-Renowned Trainer and Coach “Researching the topic of leadership is like trying to understand another person. There is always some mystery here, and in this mystery lies the beauty of leadership.”
Mark Rozin, President of ECOPSY Consulting “Career growth in Moscow is slowing down, there is no such rapid development as there was several years ago. And business in Russia is already tired of inexperienced upstarts and “stars” who make their careers on top of companies. Therefore, the idea of gradual systematic development of strong “average” employees will sooner or later be in demand.”
R. Jensen, “The Dream Society” “The Information Society finally proved that Marx and the communists were right. The workers have taken possession of capital because it is now intellectual, not physical."
A. Durer (1471-1528), German painter, draftsman and engraver, one of the greatest masters of Western European art “Thanks to true knowledge, you will be much bolder and more perfect in every work than without it”
Pisarev Dmitry Ivanovich “The desire to speak out is almost always stronger than the desire to learn something”
Absheroni Ali (humanist and thinker of Central Asia) “People who, due to their laziness, have not achieved anything serious in life, explain the successes of others with reasons that are reassuring for themselves”
Michel de Montaigne (French philosopher) “A brain well constructed is worth more than a brain well filled”
(Latin proverb) “We know as much as we remember.”
Arie de Geuz “The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only competitive advantage worth supporting.”
Napoleon Bonaparte “The great art of winning battles lies in the ability to change the direction of the main blow in the process of delivering it”
Alan LaCane, renowned expert on the optimal use of time, author of the book “Time is Money” “He who allows his time to slip away is letting his life slip away; He who holds his time in his hands holds his life in his hands.”
John Devey (American philosopher, psychologist) “Education is not preparation for life, it is life”
Craig Watters, President of Capsim Management Simulations Ins. (Norfield, Illinois, USA), specializing in business simulations “The most important thing in strategy and development is to show how decisions made within one project in a single department affect the work organization as a whole"
Jim Rohn (world-famous business philosopher. Developed strategy for Coca-Cola, IBM, Xerox, General Motors, etc.) “Formal education will help you survive. Self-education will lead you to success"
John Adair (British scientist, first to study the theory and practice of the concept of leadership) “Don't tell me how hard you worked. Tell me how much you have done"
Ivan Rybkin, founder and director of the RESO Sales School, coach-consultant “If there is no contact with the follower, if you cannot find a “common language” with him, then coaching simply will not take place”
David Novak (From DDI (Development Dimensions International) and EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) leadership talent study) “Show me a good leader and I will show you a good business.”
(Author unknown) “The point of implementing KPIs is simple: if you are trying to manage something, you must be able to measure it. Until something is measured, something is not paid attention to.”
Dmitry Mitbreit (HR Director of Agropromcredit CB) “Some line managers do not have either the skills or desire to evaluate the performance of their direct subordinates”
Sergey Sinyagin (director of the customer service department at AirUnion) “If the fire of motivation is not maintained, there will definitely come a moment when “all the wood in the stove will burn out” and you won’t even understand what happened”
Samuel A. Malone (M.Ed., MIIE, FIITD, ACMA, ACIS) “Books have an advantage over computer-based learning: they do not suffer from technical problems.”
Peter Drucker (management ideologist) “The need for traditional full-time higher education will disappear within the next thirty years”
John Van Aken (renowned sales trainer) “If you don’t know what Crotonville is, you have no business being in T&D!”
Henry David Thoreau (writer and philosopher) “Just because you have built castles in the air does not mean that you have worked in vain: castles in the air belong in the air. All that remains is to lay the foundation for them.”
Roy Amara, Institute for the Future “There is a pattern in the way we approach new technologies—we simultaneously overestimate their impact now and underestimate their impact in the future.”
Hok Dee (Founder and CEO of Visa) “No agreement can cover all the details. No rules and regulations, laws or contracts guarantee us the certainty that we so care about.” “The future cannot be reached through logical reasoning. This requires something else – imagination, hope, faith.”
Frederick W. Smith (Founder of Federal Express) “The object is to create conditions in which man will be at his best.”
Kupsin Daniil (General Director of United Media Management Company) “Success is a state of mind, confirmed by independent sources”
Warren Bennis (American social psychologist) “Everything that is bold is risky. None of this is safe."
John Kotter (Professor, Harvard Business School) “The bigger the situation, the bigger the obstacle, the more insane the whole thing is, the more often you have to do bold things.”
Chuck Palahniuk (American writer) “Do what scares you most”
Nicholas Negroponte (American computer scientist of Greek origin, founder of Media Labs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “By 2021, most people in developed countries will work for themselves”
I. Lavater (Swiss theologian, physiognomist and writer) “If you want to be smart, learn to ask intelligently, listen carefully, answer calmly and stop talking when there is nothing more to say”
Cardinal Gibbons “Of all the elements necessary for success, the most important is faith. No man will do anything great without courage."
Benjamin Franklin "An investment in knowledge always produces the greatest return"
Michael Feiner (Professor, Columbia Business School) “If you are not part of solving problems, then you are creating problems.”
C. Helvetius (French philosopher) “Among books, as among people, one can fall into good and bad society”
Manfred Kae de Vries (leading management expert) “Effective leaders play two roles – charismatic and architectural”
Alexander Akopov (President of Amedia) “Stupidity is acquired from comfort, from unexpected and undeserved successes” “We don’t work with geniuses. We work with very talented, outstanding people. But not with geniuses: they communicate poorly. And not only with the team, but also with ourselves.”
Michio Kaku (American expert in the field of theoretical physics) “The era of discovery in science ends, the era of mastery begins”
B.F. Skinner (outstanding psychologist of the 20th century) “When you come across something interesting, immediately drop everything else and study only what seems interesting to you”
Somerset Maugham “If you refuse to accept anything but the best in life, you very often get the best.”
Derek Bok (President of Harvard University) “If you think education is too expensive, try ignorance.”
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov “They write vaguely about what they vaguely imagine”
Mikhail Bulgakov “Smart people are smart to understand complicated things”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe "Where stupidity is a model, there reason is madness"
Sir John Whitmore, founder of business coaching “You can only unlock an employee’s potential if you respect him.”
Elena Evgrafova, editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review Russia “Sometimes, to expand the boundaries of thinking, you just need to seriously take a different point of view”
Alain MacKenzie “Nothing is easier than being busy, and nothing is more difficult than being productive.”
Leonardo da Vinci “An adversary who reveals your mistakes is much more useful than a friend who hides them.”
Tim Sanders, business coach, author of the book “Love is the best bait ”
John D. Rockefeller “The ability to communicate with people is a commodity that can be bought just like sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for such a skill than for anything else in the world."
Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and historian, 1st century AD. “So many things were considered impossible until they were accomplished.”
Rudolf A. Schnappauf, sales guru “There is no person who has nothing to learn in the field of interpersonal relationships”
Joseph Sugarman, owner of AS&S, legendary copywriter “The greatest successes have been those who understand a problem and turn it into an opportunity.”
Aldous Huxley, classic of English literature of the 20th century “Experience is not what happens to a person, but what a person does with what happens to him”
Albert Einstein “If an idea does not seem absurd at first glance, it will be of no use.”
“The most difficult thing in the world to understand is income tax” (Einstein’s wise thought was found and sent to the collection of aphorisms by Galina Bogdanova, personnel development manager at BAT))
Will Rogers “Even when you are on the right path, you risk going off it if you stop for even a minute.”
Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric lamp and film projector “I have never worked a single day in my life. Everything I did was pure entertainment” “The most important task of civilization is to teach a person to think” “Now I know a thousand ways how not to make an incandescent lamp”
Francois Voltaire “There are no great deeds without great obstacles” “Work frees a person from the three main evils - boredom, vice and want”
Richard Tanner Pascal, Jerry Sternin (GBR September '05) “A formulaic problem statement inevitably leads to template solutions”
Nancy Austen, co-author of A Passion for Excellence “The problem is not how to learn new ideas, but how to get rid of old ones.”
Walt Disney "If you can imagine it, you can do it"
Paul Eller, CEO of Xerox Corporation “To do something differently, you need to be able to see it differently.”
Gordon Dryden, writer “An idea is a new combination of old elements. There are no new elements. There are only new combinations"
Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman poet, 1st century BC. e. “Good material must be processed by a good craftsman”
A. Kravtsov, founder of the Ruyan company “A hive that produces a lot of honey does not grow 100 meters long and 50 meters wide, and does not acquire 8 levels of management. Bees don’t need consultants for this either...”
N. N. Burdenko (1876-1946), Russian surgeon “He who works is always young. And sometimes it seems to me that maybe work produces some special hormones that increase vital impulse.”
James March, professor at Stanford University "Pressure is one of the most effective ways to encourage stupidity"
L. N. Tolstoy “He who does nothing always has many helpers.” “People learn how to speak, but the main science is how and when to remain silent.” “A person is like a fraction: the denominator is what he thinks about himself, the numerator is what he really is. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."
I. S. Turgenev “The word “tomorrow” was invented for indecisive people and for children.”
I. Goethe “It is not enough to know, you must apply it. It’s not enough to want, you have to do it.”
Karl Marx “All saving ultimately comes down to saving time.”
Petr Kapitsa “Leading means not stopping good people from working.” “The cultivation of creative abilities in a person is based on the development of independent thinking.”
Boethius “He who has not been a student will not be a teacher.”
Mark Twain “The best way to encourage yourself is to encourage someone else.” “They didn’t know it was impossible, so they just did it.”
Henry Ford “Everything can be done better than it has been done before” “If you think you can, you are right; If you think you can’t, you’re also right.”
Winston Churchill “No matter how beautiful a strategy is, periodically you must look at the results” “A smart person does not make all the mistakes himself - he gives others a chance”
Jean de La Bruyère, writer of the 17th century “The talent of an interlocutor is distinguished not by the one who willingly speaks himself, but by the one with whom others willingly speak. if after a conversation with you a person is satisfied with himself, he is completely satisfied with you.” “Prauditing epithets do not constitute praise. Praise requires facts, and skillfully presented ones at that.”
Confucius “He who learns without thinking falls into error. Anyone who thinks without wanting to learn will find himself in difficulty.”
K. Tsiolkovsky “New ideas must be supported. Few have such courage, but this is a very precious quality of people."
Leonid Krol, director and leading trainer of the Personnel Training Center CLASS “Coaching is when a smart person advises a busy person. If you can hire someone to give you a ride, why not hire someone to think for you?”
