Management Change Quotes

Al Davis fires everybody.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

The most encouraging thing is that with the management changes there have been at Renault, they are very open to accepting that there are issues and they need to improve.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

Any time you have a change of leadership in an organization, everything kind of shifts.

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

I'd love to work in Argentina but there aren't any possibilities to manage there. The managers always remain the same. They just swap clubs once in a while.

From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

It's normal to have early difficulties when you get a new manager with a new concept.

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Whenever a new manager comes in you want to impress him.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

The last thing we need to do now is reorganize and create a new department.

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

CEOs can stay too long.