Top Management Quotes
Top Management Quote of the day
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
