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• Management: The process of dealing with or controlling things or people.  Oxford Dictionary
• Management: The control and organization of something.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Management: The act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business, department, sports team.  Merriam Webster
• Leadership,  Control,  Process management,  Time management

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Effective management is critical to a business’s success 

• A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team. Vivek Wadhwa
• Unfortunately, it’s also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen – it’s invisible and you don’t notice its presence until it’s gone, and then you’re sorry. Charles Stross
• The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. Tom Landry
• The leadership team is the most important asset of the company and can be its worst liability. Med Jones
• A CEO’s performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers. Med Jones
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Bad management can be a great hindrance and liability 

• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker
• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission. Pat Riley
• Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse. Simon Sinek
• The leadership team is the most important asset of the company and can be its worst liability. Med Jones

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Great management is both art and science 

• Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet. Henry Mintzberg
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Great management is about motivating others 

• Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca
• Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation. Tom Peters
• If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Great management is about treating people with respect and dignity 

• Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can’t expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don’t exceed the employees’ expectations of management. Howard Schultz
• The way you see them is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is the way they often become. Zig Ziglar
• Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become what he is and should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great management is about fostering learning 

• Thoughtful reflection on natural experience, in the light of conceptual ideas, is the most powerful tool we have for management learning. Henry Mintzberg
• No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. Tom Northup
• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Warren Bennis
• No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. Peter F. Drucker
• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about developing people and their talents 

• The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. Agha Hasan Abedi
• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. Peter F. Drucker
• Develop your people. Focus on their strengths. Then make high demands based on a person’s strengths. Finally, periodically view their performance. Peter Drucker
• I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
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Great management is about focusing on and leveraging people’s strengths 

• A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows what people cannot do, but never sees what they can do, will undermine the spirit of the organisation. Of course, a manager should have a clear grasp of the limitations of his people, but he should see these as limitations on what they can do, and as a challenge to them to do better. Peter Drucker
• Develop your people. Focus on their strengths. Then make high demands based on a person’s strengths. Finally, periodically view their performance. Peter Drucker
• We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge worker should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. Peter F. Drucker
• A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. Peter F. Drucker
• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. Peter F. Drucker
• The task of an executive is not to change human beings. Rather as the Bible tells us in the parable of the talents, the task is to multiply the performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about bringing out the best in people 

• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John Rockefeller

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Great management is about putting people first 

• Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant
• A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. S. M. Burns
• People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash

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Great management is about affirmation 

• Catch someone doing something right. Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. Tom Peters
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Great management is about delegation 

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. John G. Pollard
• Managers delegate work not to just relieve their workload, but to allow the employees they supervise to grow professionally. Greg Smith
• Manager: A man who never puts off till tomorrow that which he can get someone else to do today.
• The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t. Anthea Turner
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Great management is about effective decision making 

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. Harold S. Geneen
• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. Peter Drucker
• You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. Rupert Murdoch
• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker
• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker
• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about asking the right questions 

• Effective management always means asking the right question. Robert Heller
• The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. Peter F. Drucker
• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about thinking ahead 

• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Peter F. Drucker
• The best way to predict your future is to create it. Peter F. Drucker
• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker
• Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning. Donald Rumsfeld
• Planning,  The future

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Great management is about balancing the short and long term 

• You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. Jack Welch
• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. Jack Welch

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Great management is about effective communication 

• The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. James Cash Penney
• The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about setting goals and objectives 

• Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t. Peter Drucker
• Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives. Russel Honore
• Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal. Walt Disney
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Great management is about letting go of what is obsolete 

• People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. Peter F. Drucker
• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about managing others as you would like to be managed 

• Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. Brian Tracy
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Great management is about ensuring things run smoothly 

• A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. Mike Huckabee

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Great management is about removing obstacles 

• The goal of management is to remove obstacles. Paul Orfalea
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Great management is about allowing yourself and others to make mistakes 

• To be effective a manager must have the luxury of having the right to be wrong. Meir Liraz
• The practice of R&D involves making mistakes, realizations, corrections, and more mistakes. Trial and error is a fundamental part of the process. Too many managers in corporate America learn to avoid invention and new thinking because they have been convinced that their careers depend upon not making mistakes. Tom Huff
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Great management is about limiting excuses 

• One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure. Robert Townsend
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Great management is about providing the freedom to do things differently 

• All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things. Tom Northup
• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about being able to manage yourself 

• In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment – independent will – that really makes effective self- management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day. Stephen Covey
• Time management” is really a misnomer – the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen Covey
• Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson

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Great management is about keeping meetings to a minimum 

• Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea. Harvey Mackay
• Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. Peter Drucker
• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell

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Great management is about hiring the right people and then getting out of their way 

• In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. Tina Fey
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt
• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and / or qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can’t tell you how hard that is. But if you’ve imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves. Howard Schultz
• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them. Jack Welch
• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out. Ronald Reagan
• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. David Ogilvy
• Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. Colin Powell
• It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive. James Collins

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Great management is about matching the right jobs with the right people 

• In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting. Marcus Buckingham

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Great management is about firing when necessary 

• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. Peter Drucker
• Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on. Howard Schultz

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Great management is about telling people what to do rather than how to do it 

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
• Great manager define the right outcomes, not the right steps. Marcus Buckingham

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Great management is about encouraging, transmitting and executing ideas 

• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale. James Champy
• The whole business starts with ideas, and we’re convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction. Michael Eisner
• The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They’re already far beyond the ideas that created today’s results. Roger A. Enrico
• If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation—and, trust me, they are—managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas. Mark McCormack
• I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart. Akio Morita
• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognise a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. David Ogilvy
• Focus on a few key objectives … I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. Jack Welch
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Great management is about fostering innovation 

• Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation. Peter F. Drucker
• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter F. Drucker
• Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about feeding imagination 

• Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. Bill Gates
• The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. William Hazlitt
• Imagination…are the seeds of the creative process which flowers when nurtured by dedicated conscientious planning and work. Harold A. Rothbart
• You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
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Great management is about fostering teamwork 

• Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ‘em to play together is the hard part. Casey Stengel
• Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford
• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about appreciating the importance of the customer 

• The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. Peter F. Drucker
• There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. Peter F. Drucker
• The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter F. Drucker

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Great management is about measuring what needs to be managed 

• What’s measured improves. Peter F. Drucker
• Delegate clear outcomes. Make them measurable. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Explain what is to be done, the reasons for doing this job in the first place. Brian Tracy
• You can’t control what you can’t measure. Tom DeMarco

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Great management is about encouraging calculated risks 

• People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter F. Drucker
• When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you’re preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. Morgan Spurlock
• Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self- preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk—the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behavior, the second can wilt if not cultivated. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Great management is about leveraging knowledge 

• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter F. Drucker
• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter F. Drucker
• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about solving problems 

• 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
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Great management is about capitalising on opportunities 

• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. Peter F. Drucker
• It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. Peter F. Drucker
• The first – and usually the best – opportunity for successful change is to exploit one’s own successes and build on them. Problems cannot be ignored. And serious problems have to be taken care of. But to be change leaders, enterprises have to focus on opportunities. They have to starve problems and feed opportunities. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about fostering trust 

• To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person’s trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together. Linus Torvalds
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Great management is about effective planning 

• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter F. Drucker
• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. Peter F. Drucker
• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. Jack Welch
• Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. Peter Drucker
• Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning. Donald Rumsfeld
• A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight Eisenhower
• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein
• A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. George Patton
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Great management is about fostering and enabling productivity 

• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. Steve Jobs
• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker
• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. Tom Peters
• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. Paul Gauguin
• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. Jeffrey Kluger
• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
• There is nothing less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
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Great management is about fostering efficiency 

• Cut useless activities and create systems to organize your workflow to avoid wasted time, money, and effort.
• Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
• Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Walter Chrysler
• 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. Peter Drucker
• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates
• The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. Alexis Carrel
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. Robert Burton
• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
• Don’t manage what you can systemize or, better yet, eliminate. Jeff Davidson
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Great management is about effectiveness 

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
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Great management is about being mindful of company culture 

• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got. Peter Drucker
• Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on. Howard Schultz
• Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse. Simon Sinek

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Great management uses influence rather than authority 

• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter F. Drucker
• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
• Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee’s compliance than on threats or sanctions. Fernanda Bartolme
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Great management can be learned 

• We have great managers who haven’t spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven’t spent a day in surgical school?  Henry Mintzberg
• No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. Tom Northup
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Great management hires the right people 

• When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard. John W. Gardner
• Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on. Howard Schultz
• When selecting someone, great managers select for talent, not simply experience. Marcus Buckingham

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• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren G. Bennis
• Managers have their eyes on the bottom line; leaders have their eyes on the horizon. Warren Bennis
• Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. Stephen Covey
• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey
• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
• Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. Paul Orfalea
• A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. Mike Huckabee
• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go! a leader says, “Let’s go!” M. Kelly
• Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. Ross Perot
• You manage things; you lead people. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
• Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives. Russel Honore
• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt
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Risk management 

• The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning. Charles Tremper
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Time management 

• We need to maintain a proper balance in our life by allocating the time we have. There are occasions where saying no is the best time management practice there is. Catherine Pulsifer
• Time management” is really a misnomer – the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen Covey
• This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day. Brian Tracy
• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. Peter F. Drucker
• Systems for running our lives can be useful, but they can also enslave us. Time management can be the biggest trap of them all. It can creep into your psyche, and rather than freeing you up, it’s calling all the shots. Danielle LaPorte
• I believe the main goal of time management is to give you the power to make your life as juicy as you want it to be. By getting clear about what you want and then developing a collection of habits that allow you to efficiently achieve your goals, you’ll enjoy a much richer, more fulfilling life. Steve Pavlina
• I am definitely going to take a course on time management…just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. Louis E. Boone
• Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. Denis Waitley
• All time management begins with planning. Tom Greening
• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. John C. Maxwell 
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Stress management 

• Two rules for stress management: Rule one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule two: It’s all small stuff.  Robert Elliot
• Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. Marilu Henner
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Pain management 

• The goal of pain management is to increase function and quality of life while reducing your sense of suffering. Alison Conte
• Successful pain management usually takes several different approaches, rather than one “magic bullet. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
• Exercise is truly the most active part of self-management, although it works best when it’s started gradually and properly paced. Exercise builds strength and flexibility and causes a natural “antidepressant” effect–which is important as many people with chronic pain become depressed. Need more motivation? If you don’t exercise, you can experience stiffer joints, weak muscles, less stamina or “staying power,” and lower pain tolerance. Evelyn Corsini
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Keep the number of management layers to a minimum 

• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Donald Rumsfeld
• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. Norman Ralph Augustine
• We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth. Harold J. Leavitt

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Some questions for managers to ask 

• In what area would excellence really have an extraordinary impact on the economic results of our business, to the point where it might transform the economic performance of the entire business? Peter Drucker
• What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? Peter Drucker
• In what areas would it make little difference whether we perform excellently or poorly? Peter Drucker
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Resign as manager of the universe 

• As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid- sentence. “Naomi, girl,” she said, “you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems.  Patti LaBelle
• For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
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• To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel
• The food is terrible here. I’d like to see the manager.  Sorry, he’s gone out for lunch.
• She was one of those women who go through life demanding to see the manager.
• Manager: A man who never puts off till tomorrow that which he can get someone else to do today.
• Management consultants: People who borrow your watch to tell you what time it is, and then walk off with it.   Robert Townsend
• I am definitely going to take a course on time management…just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. Louis E. Boone
• For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
• After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.” William S Burroughs
• Business leave: Managements’ way of reminding you that they can get on perfectly well without you.
• If at first you don’t succeed, try management.

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