Middle Management Quotes

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

Inspirational, Real, Work

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Real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

Real, Top Management, People

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I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Tim Gould

Funny Work, Boss, Lows

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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

Steve Jobs

Running, Business, Passion

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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

Adam C. Engst

Horse, War, Long

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Middle management is a disease.

Massimo Vignelli

Disease, Management, Middle

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I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

Steve Martin

Gun, Forever, Doomed

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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

Studs Terkel

Jobs, Men, Elderly

Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.256, The New Press

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