Management Issue Quotes

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

Would you please tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.

Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.

I would be ready to rejoin Nightwish if all the members of the band and the management team were changed.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

... an impossible organization to administer ... just an amorphous lump.