Management Hierarchy Quotes

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.

Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

If you've had the No. 1 job, why would you go back and be reserve manager? Is Alex Ferguson going to be reserve manager for Manchester United? It's like a boxer going into the ring with one arm behind his back. Why would you do it? You're going to get knocked out.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.