People Management Quotes

People Management Quote of the day

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

We have to change that whole system [of veterans support]. It starts with management. We have to have a whole different set of protocols. And we have to get people off the lines.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.