management

Let__ form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we__l stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That__ assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Don__ confuse __trict confidentiality_ with __eeping employees in the dark._ Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Don__ buy into the campaign that people don__ like change. We are built for it.

Manager! Have brain - use it!

A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

Although some organizations today may survive and prosper because they have intu- itive geniuses managing them, most are not so fortunate. Most organizations can benefit from strategic management, which is based upon integrating intuition and analysis in decision making. Choosing an intuitive or analytic approach to decision making is not an either__r proposition. Managers at all levels in an organization inject their intuition and judgment into strategic-management analyses. Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking complement each other. Operating from the I__e-already-made-up-my-mind-don__-bother-me-with-the-facts mode is not management by intuition; it is management by ignorance. Drucker says, __ believe in intuition only if you discipline it. __unch_ artists, who make a diagnosis but don__ check it out with the facts, are the ones in medicine who kill people, and in management kill businesses.

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not