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

  Richard R. Ernst

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Recognized, Institutions

• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Office, Energy, Decided

• Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

  Will Carling

  Topics in Management, Sports, Success

• People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Bishop, Critics

• We’re just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

  Paula Ann Zahn

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Thinking

• Two things define your personality, the way you manage things when you have nothing.. The way you behave when you have everything.

  Unknown

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Thing, Everything

• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management, Work

  Tags in Productivity, Worker, Responsibility

• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management, Work

• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management, Power

  Tags in Managers, Privilege, Confer, Responsibility

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management

• Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Percent, Boss

• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Job, Leadership, Management, Work

  Tags in Tolerate, Organization, Responsibility

• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management

  Tags in Speech, Solution

• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Decisions, Expectations, Management

  Tags in Information

• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Ideals, Leadership, Management

  Tags in Self-Confidence, Emphasize, Self-Esteem, Test, Community

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Gardener, People, Talent, Weed

• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Management, Opportunity

  Tags in Compensation, Wing

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen R. Covey

  Topics in Leadership, Management

  Tags in Ladder

• It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Greater, Result, Second

• The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

  Germaine Greer

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Adulthood