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“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”
Agha Hasan Abedi
“A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.”
Scott Allen
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
Thomas J. Peters
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
Lao Tzu
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter F. Drucker
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it”
Theodore Roosevelt
“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”
Scott Adams
“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
