Management Training Quotes

Leadership is hard to train on.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

I've grown up in motorsport since I was 12 or 13 years of age; I've never been on a management training course.

Some companies have a very well-defined program that they bring young people into to help them figure out what they really like to do to get them exposure to senior management early.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.

It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.