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“The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”
Robert Heller
“Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions”
Charles Garfield
“The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.”
Billy Graham
“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.”
Peter Hall
“Where is our usual manager of mirth?What revels are in hand? Is there no play,To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”
William Shakespeare
“Good managers have a bias for action.”
Thomas J. Peters
“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.”
Pat Riley
“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.”
“A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.”
Robert Townsend