Management Techniques Quotes

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.

I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples' butts, because they're all different.

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.