Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.
I wasn’t the one managing my career back then, that was the problem – I was 14 years old.
A big part of managing is managing defeats and assessing where you are. It’s making sure that you prepare a group of players and that you create an environment that is a competitive one but that is also a realistic one.
I figured managing people was obvious – I’d tell someone what they needed to do and they’d do what I wanted. It turns out that’s not the case. It was frustrating at first.
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Someone asked me about what’s it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, ‘When they’re Wal-Mart associates, it’s not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.’ I’m really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.
We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at the same time, an apogee of opprobrium and excellence.
Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.
Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
I was a lousy player with virtually no experience managing.
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That’s basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.
That more women are getting involved in politics – either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting – is a great thing.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst.
I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.
I started event managing as my first career which I started in 1989, and that was the first year when I started modelling as well, so every time I start something new it is because of an interest that I have and then that interest becomes sustainable and doable.
The emphasis in thoroughbreds is managing the horses as much as it is training them.
I don’t really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that’s the important thing: managing emotion.
Management, whether you’re managing in the lower division or you’re right at the top, is about getting the best out of what you’ve got.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Limited points of view let the writer dispense – and the reader gather – information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.
My hair is just like five pieces of very soft straw that needs managing. I touch my hair a lot, and that makes it crazy.
I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people.
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it’s the same skills.
When I started, there very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it’s not like when I looked up I could say, ‘Well, that’s who I want to be.’
Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing the challenges posed by globalisation.
God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.
Being on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is an amazing opportunity. I consider myself lucky to be a part of the show and to be able to share my passion and love of dance with such a huge audience while managing to train a few celebrities in ballroom dance along the way.
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that’s been good, and it’s just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
Big things, a real crisis, I think I’m pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I’m managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.
All credit to my mother who, despite having to look after eight children, always made time for exercise. She’d work out to Jane Fonda and later Kathy Smith and Cindy Crawford in between managing us.
Sometimes I think the easiest way to introduce what goes into managing the expenses of a tennis career is to take a look at another pro sport and notice some of the differences.
Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and managing that – and we do it for free.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.
Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don’t really know what your results will be, how you’ll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.
It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal merit, attainments in learning, and prudence in managing public business shall not be unworthy of the dignity of that see.
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn’t belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.
It’s something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy – that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.
I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.
When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time – when they were playing stadiums all over the world – it was very wearing.
I was attracted by the opportunity of managing in the Premier League.
I don’t even have a management team. I have people managing my work but there are limitations when it comes to projects.
There’s often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.
I thought Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you’re directing, you’re basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.
Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don’t work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I’d like those to be independent choices.
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
If you haven’t created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you are only managing the business that comes in the door, not actively seeking it out.
