Management Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

  Fred Brooks

  Pilots, Plans

  "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• A boat can't have two captains.

  Akira Mori

  Two, Captains, Boat

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• I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

  James Sinegal

  Years, Size, Conferences

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• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  Clayton Christensen

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

  Ben Horowitz

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

  "Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Innovation, Intellectual, Needs

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• From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 164), 1986.

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• Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

  Nat Friedman

  Creating, Issues, Guy

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• In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, People, Energy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

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• Time is the only commodity that matters.

  Randy Pausch

  Matter, Time Management, Commodity

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• Time is a perishable commodity.

  David Hume

  Time Management, Commodity

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• Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

  Arthur Golden

  Moving, Fighting, Time Management

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• Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Long, Childhood

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.116

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• Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.

  Andrew Dobson

  Time Management, Time Passes, Staying

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• The moment has no time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time Management, Moments

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• Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

  Aristotle

  Movement, Time Management, Units

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• Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Ebb And Flow, Forever

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

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• Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

  Plato

  Moving, Time Management, Eternity

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• Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

  John Locke

  Ideas, Movement, Time Management

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• Time is the supreme Law of nature.

  Arthur Eddington

  Law, Time Management, Supreme

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