Managerial Effectiveness Quotes

Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

If the head of the state is exemplary and his officials are competent, all things will go well. If the head of the state will worry about minute details, his officials will be lazy, and all things will go bad.

If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.