Management Quotes - Page 33

• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Nonsense, Method

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• A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leader, Able, Teach

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Confusing, Special, Causes

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• If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, Company, Left

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• Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Fixed

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• To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Profound, Style, World

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Being Thankful, Acquisition, World

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

  Alfie Kohn

  Important, Quality, Needs

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• The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

  Brian Tracy

  Tasks, Time Management, Facts

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest

  Brooks Johnson

  Running, Stress, Training

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• All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Team, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Team, Government, Cities

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• I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

  Richard Ernst

  Teaching, Research, Scientist

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• First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Law, Firsts, Testing

  Tom DeMarco (2001). “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”, p.95, Crown Business

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• New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

  Chris Lytle

  Rookies, Forgotten, Selling

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• You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.

  Chris Lytle

  Support, Leader, Triangles

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• When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

  Jim McDonough

  Numbers, People, Use

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• The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

  Anthea Turner

  Trying, Firsts, Delegation

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• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Function, Greater, Managers

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

  Mark Russinovich

  Lying, Taken, Rights

  "Sony gets an earful over CD software / Program to block music piracy prompts privacy, security worries" by Carrie Kirby, www.sfgate.com. November 11, 2005.

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• We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Problem, Physical Attraction, Security

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• Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

  Rob McKenna

  Strong, Way, Washington State

  "GOP candidate: 'I'm not Scott Walker'" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Inspirational, Leadership, Productive Work

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• There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

  Fred Brooks

  Technology, Order, Simplicity

  ""The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition"". Book by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., August 2, 1995.

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