List Of Top Management Quotes

Management Is, Above All, A Practice Where Art, Science, And Craft Meet

Time Is What We Want Most, But What We Use Worst.

Good Leadership Consists Of Showing Average People How To Do The Work Of Superior People.

Hire People Who Are Better Than You Are, Then Leave Them To Get On With It. Look For People Who Will Aim For The Remarkable, Who Will Not Settle For The Routine.

The Kind Of People I Look For To Fill Top Management Spots Are The Eager Beavers, The Mavericks. These Are The Guys Who Try To Do More Than They're Expected To Do - They Always Reach.

The Biggest Barriers To Strategic Renewal Are Almost Always Top Management's Unexamined Beliefs.

One Of The Things I've Had The Advantage Of, Growing Up And Being Close To The Top Management Of This Company And Other Companies For Most Of My Life, Is Seeing How Ceos Start To Believe In Their Own Infallibility. And That Really Scares Me.

In Most Cases Being A Good Boss Means Hiring Talented People And Then Getting Out Of Their Way.

Executives Owe It To The Organization And To Their Fellow Workers Not To Tolerate Nonperforming Individuals In Important Jobs.

Managing Innovation Will Increasingly Become A Challenge To Management, And Especially To Top Management, And A Touchstone Of Its Competence.

Top Management As A Function And As A Structure Was First Developed By Georg Von Siemens (1839-1901) In Germany Between 1870 And 1880, When He Designed And Built The Deutsche Bank And Made It, Within A Very Few Years, Into Continental Europe's Leading And Most Dynamic Financial Institution.

What's Absolutely Unforgivable Is The Financial Benefit Top Management People Get For Laying Off People. There's No Excuse For It. No Justification. No Explanation. This Is Morally And Socially Unforgivable, And We'll Pay A Very Nasty Price.