I was always intrigued by management and I wish I could turn the clock back and pick the brains of each of my managers.
We are going to have a suite of products that you subscribe to – television, high-speed Internet, phone, home security, energy management, maybe even health care – and we are going to have many customers that are going to buy those products directly from us.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It’s not just writing. It’s also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.
On ‘Awake,’ we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on ‘Anger Management,’ we can take maybe 10 minutes on a scene if we’re lucky.
There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren’t auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company – to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place.
The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn’t preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.
We all know how management works. If you don’t win things, as has happened before, people start to call for your head.
Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change – better economic management, less crime, and less corruption – and they expect him to deliver.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery – people saying they can beat the market, and they really can’t.
One of the key things that I learnt on ‘MasterChef’ was time management.
I tend not to look at Twitter in the morning; I try to force myself not to, for time management. I’ll look at it on the way to work.
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it’s hard to be happy about a bookseller’s demise.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
I’m really pleased to have signed with Activate Management and am really looking forward to exploring my commercial opportunities with them around the world.
Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is – like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that’s where that’s a challenge.
It is a misuse of words if you say ‘content censorship’. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.
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.
I’m difficult for management. That’s why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
Probably the biggest contribution that Disney has made to the Lucasfilm franchise management was their international component. That was something Lucasfilm hadn’t made significant inroads with.
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they’re accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
When we’d suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, ‘Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.’ As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
I wanted to raise my kids to be strong, independent and follow their dreams and be themselves and make choices based on what they want not what the press, management or a record label or I don’t care who it is… you stick to what you want and you be who you are and be proud of it.
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The radio has to deliver, the management has to deliver in terms of booking the right promotions… just being a good song isn’t enough.
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
Part of brand management is what you don’t do, not what you do.
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.
I’ve got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.
There’s more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I’d be management level now.
I would be very surprised if Phil Neville didn’t go into management and possibly Johnny Heitinga, too.
I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It’s a good company, with good management and a good team.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.
When I’m writing a song, it’s just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they’re all lovin’ it, it’s kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
The teams that are successful from ownership to management to coaching – there is a singleness of purpose. There’s enough credit for everyone. No one gets territorial. It’s just good – and it shows on the field.
If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas.
What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.
When I stopped my work in films and took over the management of the house, sometime after marriage, my new avatar was replicated hilariously by Dilip Sahab a few times having me and my mother in splits.
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service’s broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
