I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it’s suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.
When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after year by using a few simple principles relentlessly. The system of management he used was called differentiation.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
I cleaned up everything behind the scenes and simplified my life. I made some changes in my staff. I changed management, my accountants, my bookkeeping team. I had a full refresh. For me that was extremely important.
If you’re successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It’s when growth stops that things get tough.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really – in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it’s really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.
Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.
I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.
As long-term business builders, we invest our permanent capital and deploy management skills in support of talented leaders and companies with global potential.
When I first left Nike to go work with LeBron and manage him, I was really bullish about managing other athletes. I really wanted to get more athletes besides LeBron and build this big management practice. And in hindsight that was a mistake.
I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management.
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don’t know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm’s exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm’s risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.
I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.
Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
It’s a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.
Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed ‘SportsCenter’ from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It’s pretty much all women all the time.
Body management is going to be essential if I want to play most of the matches.
Andrade had a large reputation to uphold because of his rich family heritage in Mexico, and he upheld that reputation because of my management behind the scenes.
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone’s own interests, which creates cynicism.
If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.
In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management – they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.
Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching ‘Monday Night Football’ with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.
I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I’ve told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled.
The reason my management get upset with me the most is that they don’t know what’s going to come out my mouth.
I started off life at Pixar with interesting technical problems. But as time has moved on, I found that the social and management problem was far more complex and interesting.
With management and employees on the same side of the table, your interests are aligned, and shareholders look at you as one.
Avon is a unique place to work; we’ve got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
It’s unfortunate that you don’t see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.
There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.
The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
Huddersfield isn’t one of the biggest fishes in the Championship and to get bigger you have to find new ways. I’ve been surprised by how open-minded and innovative everybody is at this club, not only the players but the whole staff, the whole management.
You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.
My day job, running a fund management company, means I know that I and my team can’t afford not to read every word of every document about assets or markets we propose to invest in, and to be absolutely clear we are complying with all the legal and regulatory requirements involved.
I grew up in the IBM school of management.
I see good personal financial management as setting – and keeping – a budget.
There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don’t manage accounts like you manage designers.
I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.
I’ve learned time management, organization and I have priorities.
I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That’s how it started. I worked my way.
I don’t deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that’s one thing I am constantly working on – pain management.
