Management Quotes - Page 28

• I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mistake, Decision

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• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  Larry Page

  Believe, Thinking, Organization

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

  Alex Jones

  Jobs, Team, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Alex Jones". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Desire, Assuming, Courses

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• Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

  Henry Ford

  Hard Work, Past, Easier

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• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

  Jack Welch

  Holding On, Failing, Form

  “WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Skills, Two, Working Together

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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Helping Others, Boss, Levels

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• A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Success, Winning, Common Sense

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• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Differences, Empowerment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Differences, Empowering

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• Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

  Lily Tomlin

  Women, Power, Funny Girlfriend

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• Again, racing for me was about energy management.

  Frank Shorter

  Racing, Energy

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• The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Defining

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• The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Weak, Reactions

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• Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Practice, Organization

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• A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Thinking, Achievement

  "The Illusion of Total Security". Radcliffe Commencement Address on June 16, 1954. The Atlantic Monthly, No.194, August 1954.

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• The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.

  Daniele Nouy

  Practice, Risk, Sound

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• There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.

  Paul Collier

  Book, Simple, Rocks

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• We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

  Jeff Bezos

  Risk, Pioneers, Risk Management

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• You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

  Arthur Rudolph

  Real, Risk, Trying

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• If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

  Robin Sharma

  Risk, Small Life, Entitled

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2014

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• The easy way out usually leads back in.

  Peter Senge

  Risk, Way, Easy

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.53, Random House

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• A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

  Guy Fawkes

  Risk, Disease, Desperate

  6 November 1605. 'Dictionary of National Biography'.

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• I have a right to be blind sometimes.

  Horatio Nelson

  Risk, Sometimes, Blind

  1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.

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