Management Levels Quotes

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

I think as a manager you want to manage at the highest level possible and international management is one of those higher levels.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

Everybody has a corporate structure.