Managing is a tough job. When you’re young, you just think it’s a natural progression – I’m good at this, so I’m going to be good at that – and it’s not that way at all.
There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I’m ready.
Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it’s crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.
I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys’ sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn’t fun to me and is not my skill set.
I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.
Mental strength requires a three-pronged approach – managing our thoughts, regulating our emotions, and behaving productively despite our circumstances. While all three areas can be a struggle, it’s often our thoughts that make it most difficult to be mentally strong.
Walmart was built on the idea that we could give our customers access to the items they need every day at the lowest prices by eliminating waste and managing our expenses better than the competition.
Climate change makes machine learning that much more valuable, too: So much of the data available to scientists is not necessarily accurate anymore, as animals move their habitats, temperatures rise and currents shift. As species move, managing populations becomes even more critical.
I joined 3G when I was 24, but I didn’t really have much of a management role there. I became C.F.O. when we acquired Burger King, so that was my first time managing people. I had just turned 30.
The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
Every manager dreams of managing Manchester United.
Doesn’t matter if you’re playing football, running track or managing a restaurant, you want to be the best at what you do in life.
Howard Shore, who’s an amazing film composer, told me once that it’s 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you’re really managing people and getting the best out of them.
When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
If I want another job, I’ll get one. I haven’t set a date of when to stop managing.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
I do some yoga, but it’s just about managing my back because that step up physically to men’s football is big. I know I look big and strong, but it’s still hard on my body. But I’m feeling stronger and stronger the more I play.
Managing the Royals is a job for a man playing without a full deck.
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole – their mind, body, and spirit.
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
I won’t be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it’s gone up and up.
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don’t need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.
I’ve often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ‘They’re never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.’ I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in a matter of years.
We’re really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
When you’re managing a team the key is, I guess, to find where those boundaries are, where you’re prepared to let people go, to what extent you’re allowing them to be a free spirit because ultimately it’s all got to be in the greater cause which is making sure the team wins cricket games.
I’m a big micro manager; I’m a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I’m in the studio.
Managing people’s sex lives is something that I don’t think is a good role for government.
CEOs shouldn’t worry about their budget all the time – on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.
I’ve considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I’ve done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I knew nothing about managing when I started.
Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
I’ve seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way – people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.
Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days when some bureaucrat in Delhi decided what managing directors would earn, but how about more transparency in reporting pay and perks from multiple sources and giving teeth to institutional investors.
The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you’ll get a great return.
As far as managing, I’ve been managing myself from the beginning, so if I don’t start speaking up for myself, nobody will.
I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own – say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.
When you’re managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
Allegri is very good at managing the locker room in the most difficult moments of a season, to make the team understand how to manage the time of a match.
A coach coaches. That’s what he does. That’s what he’s good at. He’s not managing people. He manages his players, but that’s different.
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
From a playing or managing point of view relegation is a blot on your CV that you don’t want, but you have to live with it and try to bounce back.
We all know how to play tennis. We all know how to hit the ball. It’s more just about those details – managing all those early rounds and just managing yourself to make sure you’re ready for whatever is coming up next.
That’s what ‘The Trail’ ended up being, this delightful way of exploring and managing your backpack and crafting and collecting and trading with other players, doing all that in this really delicious way. When we finished that and released it on iOS and Android, tens of millions of people loved and enjoyed it.
