Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.
Decision making is the specific executive task.
I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.
I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.
If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.
Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.
I never thought I was a very good manager.
My confidence is in myself and how I run a football club and I've been doing that for many, many years now.
If you can help an employee get to that extra level of skill, you have a great executive.
I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.
But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn't necessarily me.
