Business Management Quotes
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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.
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.
Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.
A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use
When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators
A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief
Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction
The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.
You have to work on the business first before it works for you.
The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.
...while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time...is people.
Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.
There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...