Managers Quotes
Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.
In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.
People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.
Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.
Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs — their real jobs.
…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.
People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.
It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.