Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them
– Paul Hawken
Category Archives: Management
You can…
You can be appointed manager but you are not a leader until your appointment has been ratified in the hearts and minds of the people
– John Adair
Managers…
Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phoney separation that people are making between the two.
– Henry Mintzberg
Business…
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business – it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Successful…
Successful transformation is 70 to 90 percent leadership and only 10-30 percent management.
– John Kotter
Success…
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing
– Warren Bennis
Management….
Management tries to manage problems; leadership tries to overcome the problems.
– Debasish Mridha
Good plans…
Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
– Lester Bittel
Management…
… has a lot to do with answers but leadership is a function of questions
– Max DePree
The manager…
… asks how and when; the leader asks what and why
– Warren Bennis
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