As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning.
The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.
Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That’s something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.
We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
I took on the role of CEO, which involves directing the Management Team and overall day-to-day operations of 500.
Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It’s when growth stops that things get tough.
The most important aspect of my signing with the WFL was not to demean or undermine the National Football League, but rather to make professional football a form of employment where management recognizes its workers as individuals capable of communicating on an intelligent level.
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
42% of our management team are women. So we’ve reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that’s when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution – the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that’s a lovely point to reflect on.
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as executive management teams.
Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They’re not really about expertise or science.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.
The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company’s management team.
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we’d say, ‘Boy, that’s interesting. Let’s add some more engineers.’
My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.
One of the hardest parts of management is trying to bring a club back after it’s been relegated because there is a lot of doom and gloom around, especially among supporters.
The crux of what makes a company Indian is its entrepreneurship. The management needs to be in India.
You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can’t be asked to get into every decision.
My mom worked at McDonald’s, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald’s. And that’s how you move up the chain. It’s not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it’s by actually acquiring the skills. That’s the way that people get ahead in life.
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain’s underlying economic performance.
In India, we have the global services HQ, R&D centres, global network operating centres, global manufacturing, and product management – India is not just a market but a country we use for extended NSN.
If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The ‘going public’ may also be an exit strategy for the top management.
When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
I used to have a theory in my mind that if no serious move had happened before I was 38 – not 40, oddly – then I would move into management or something. Fortunately, I was offered ‘The Frost Report’ when I was 37, so that was a close thing, too.
I have realised that baby care needs a lot of time management.
I’m a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.
In many respects, Arizona is a model for the rest of the country on best practices for water management.
In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren’t management books out there that could help me.
I believe in MWA – management by walking around – so I spend as much time as possible traveling and visiting franchise partners. You only learn by walking around and meeting people.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
There is just one exception to the FCC’s no-throttling rule – if a company can prove that throttling is ‘reasonable network management.’
Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good – but disrupts the ‘natural’ flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.
One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don’t understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.
In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don’t need it.
We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
We’ve got a low turnover management group and executive group who’ve grown up in the business.
I flew home to Pittsburgh, and my management called me to ask if I wanted to perform on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ with Charlie Puth. I’m like, ‘What? I grew up watching the show!’
To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we’re mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that’s a function of management.
I’ve grown up in motorsport since I was 12 or 13 years of age; I’ve never been on a management training course.
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
A successful team, in sports or business, extends from the top of management down to the guys at the bottom of the roster or organizational chart.
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
2/3 of our management associates come from our hourly ranks. We put in place academies to help people with education. We’ve put a dollar a day college program in to help people get college hours if they want to advance their degrees.
