When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Read Summary
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. Read Summary
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. Read Summary
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. Read Summary
Any manager can do well in an expanding market. Read Summary
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide. Read Summary
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy. Read Summary
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Read Summary
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Read Summary
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. Read Summary
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. Read Summary
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Read Summary
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Read Summary
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. Read Summary
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. Read Summary
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Read Summary
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Read Summary
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. Read Summary
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. Read Summary
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. Read Summary