The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
A leader leads by example not by force.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.
Real management is developing people through work.
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.
To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
Nobody else in the world can play the way Scholes does. The passes he produces all over the field and the way he changes the game is brilliant. Every manager would like him. But luckily he is here and playing with us. Paul practices that all the time. When he has finished training he always goes out and shoots.
England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.
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