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  • Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

    Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  • Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

    "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

    "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.
  • Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

    Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com
  • The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

  • It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

    Joseph M. Juran (1945). “Management of Inspection and Quality Control”
  • The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

    "Knowledge Building Through Sensemaking: Connecting the Dots: Information Overload: What to do with all of the New Information". Book by Melanie M. Minarik, p. 13, 2008.
  • Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

  • In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

  • The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  • In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.

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  • One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

  • The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

    New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945
  • Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.

    "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.
  • Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

    Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.182, John Wiley & Sons
  • If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  • Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

  • One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  • The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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

    "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.
  • You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  • It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

  • When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  • Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

  • When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

  • Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

    Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas
  • Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

    FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 16, 2016
  • . . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

  • What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.

    "The Relentless Contrarian". Interview with Peter Schwartz, Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.
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