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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Managing (1984)
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to smell a real fact from all others.
Managing (1984)
My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to?
New York Times (1997)
Management is more fun, more creative, more personal, more political and more intuitive than any textbook.
Gods of Management (1986)
Management by trust, empathy, and forgiveness sounds good. It also sounds soft. It is in practice tough. Organizations based on trust have, on occasion, to be ruthless.
Harvard Business Review (1992)
Most of our organization tends to be arranged on the assumption that people cannot be trusted... that sort of attitude creates a paraphernalia of systems, checkers, and checkers checking checkers � expensive and deadening.
'Trust and the Virtual Organization,' Harvard Business Review (1991)
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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