List of Robert Heller Quotes

Managers Are To Information As Alcoholics Are To Booze. They Consume Enormous Amounts, Constantly Crave More, But Have Great Difficulty In Digesting Their Existing Intake.

If Sophisticated Calculations Are Needed To Justify An Action, Don't Do It.

If You Are Attempting The Impossible, You Will Fail.

If You Are Doing Something Wrong, You Will Do It Badly.

Management Capability Is Always Less Than The Organization Actually Needs.

No Executive Devotes Effort To Proving Himself Wrong.

All Good Management Is The Expression Of One Great Idea

In Getting Good Results Team Leaders Become Conductor Rather Than Driver, Enabling Others To Play The Right Music, Not By Hands-on Domination Of All Decisions And Execution, But By Providing Inspiration, Motivation And Stimulus.

No Talent In Management Is Worth More Than The Ability To Master Facts-not Just Any Facts, But The Ones That Provide The Best Answers.

Things Have To Be Made To Happen In A Way You Want Them To Happen. Without Management, Without The Intervention Of Organized Willpower The Desired Result Simply Cannot Be Obtained.

Management Is A Far More Homely Business Than Its Would Be Scientists Suggest, More Closely Allied To Cookery Than Any Other Human Activity. Like Cooking, It Rests On A Degree Of Organisation And On Adequate Resources. But Just As No Two Chefs Run Their Kitchens The Same Way, So No Two Managements Are The Same.

Here Lies One Of The World's Rare Generalized Tinas. There Is No Alternative To Creativity And Innovation: These Days, Obscurantism And Conservatism Will Do For You Every Time.