Management Skills Quotes

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

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.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

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.

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.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

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.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

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.

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?

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

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.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.