Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It’s not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
It’s not my job to rate managers. My focus is on me and my team.
I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs of different colour boots to a game?
If you go down the leagues, you have to understand what level you’re working with, and if you get frustrated, then it’s not going to ever happen for you. That’s why a lot of managers don’t succeed where they should do.
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers – scores at a time – into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
It’s good that we have good managers like Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger in this countr,y but I think we should be trying to send out some of our managers to other countries to help not just the development of themselves but the leagues over here. It can enhance their careers.
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
It’s no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What’s interesting is where they do better. It’s in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
I’ve never had a problem with Jesus. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s just the kind of guy you’d always want to have around. But I have had a big problem with his agents, publicists, and managers. They’ve abused his message for power and converted moldable, excited people into bullied believers and followers.
Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
After Pixar’s 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization.
Managers now don’t just use 11 players; they have to care about all the squad of 25 or more players.
I don’t want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.
From an early stage in my career, if you’re talking about picking up knowledge, it would have been via Ian Greaves who was involved in my success as a young player at Bolton. And working under managers such as Bobby Gould and George Graham helped me to expand my knowledge at bit more.
Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.
I joined Aston Villa to improve myself in the Premier League. It started well but then I got injured and Villa ended up having five managers that season.
After I won Miss Universe, my managers started telling me I have to start putting on less makeup.
Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.
In Italy managers are judged simply by results.
I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it’s a transfer, ‘these are our transfers.’
All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.
Managers don’t play. We the players play.
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I’d trust myself.
Ensuring the San Luis Valley’s Radar data is fully integrated into National Weather Service systems will improve weather forecasting and warnings across southern Colorado for the benefit of farmers, ranchers, tourists, first responders, water district managers, and the general population.
When the game is played by such a high percentage of black and ethnic minority players and we’re looking at the percentage of managers and coaches, at the top level it is minimal.
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this – plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room – is why they have captured the investing public’s imagination.
Great managers recognize that there is no one way to manage. You may have to be 10 different managers to get the best out of your team.
I want to become one of the greatest managers that has ever lived. Why not? If it doesn’t happen, then I’ve given everything, and I’d be proud of whatever I’m able to achieve.
Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.
That’s all baseball is, is numbers; it’s run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.
I’m not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don’t.
We were the leaders of a company at the age of 15 with lawyers, tax advisers and managers around us, all on our payroll. A huge chunk of responsibility rested on our shoulders, which at the same time was a good thing since we hate superiors.
There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.
Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.
I’ve advised clients to fire or take other serious action against executives and other managers who, in my judgment, had engaged in harassment or other misconduct.
Jurgen Klopp is more the emotional one and someone who can motivate really well. Pep Guardiola is more tactical, who always takes care of details and wants to show you how to do everything. Both are world-class managers and both have their own qualities. Both are amazing personalities.
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public’s money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs – but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don’t have any kind of public persona – it’s all about the fame of the artist. I really don’t want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.
I never leave anywhere without my watch because it’s a very special gift given to me by one of my managers.
I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
Personally, I’m a fan of valets and managers.
If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I’ve never knocked back an opponent in my life.
When the Americans are behind you, they’re behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project – to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
When I came into this profession, my first condition to myself and my managers was that I don’t want to work every day. As an actor you keep giving, so it’s important for you to need the time to take things in.
Well certain managers will see you make mistakes and they’ll tell you about it and then they’ve told you once and if you do it again, then it’s up to you.
There’re plenty of good people in football – mostly players and managers.
But we didn’t have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
I never dreamed I’d be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
