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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 only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.”
Sparky Anderson
“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
Peter F. Drucker
“How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.”
Tommy Lasorda
“The smaller the function, the greater the management.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.”
Norman R. Augustine
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''”
William S. Burroughs
“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.”
