"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. |
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs |
All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time. |
Cars that have been seriously damaged in one state can be wind up in another. |
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise. |
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. |
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. |
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions. |
Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible. |
Flooded vehicles are sometimes cleaned up by unscrupulous sellers without disclosure of flood damage. In most states, this is illegal, but unfortunately some vehicles will slip through the system. |