Management And Leadership Quotes
A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.
The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.
Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.
Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.
Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.
You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.
All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.
Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.
In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.
When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!
To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.
Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.
Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Most people do not see their words as power.
Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.
Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.
Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.
EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated
If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.
Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.
If you can 'hire tough, ' you can 'manage easy.
If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.
Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams.Because it teaches you how tomanage time and tackle emergencies.
No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.
Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.