Management Insight

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY TUESDAY APRIL 30TH, 2019
“A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - HENRY KISSINGER
"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible." - COLIN POWELL
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” -MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY THURSDAY MARCH 21, 2019
“Education is the mother of leadership” - WENDELL WILLKIE
“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” - ERSKINE BOWLES
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” - DIANNE FEINSTEIN
"A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers." - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” - JEANETTE RANKIN

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY SUNDAY MARCH 17, 2019
“The first key to leadership is self-control.” - JACK WEATHERFORD
"Earn your leadership every day." - MICHAEL JORDAN
"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage." - FUCHAN YUAN
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
- HARVEY FIRESTONE
"A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” - HANS FINZEL

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY WEDNESDAY MARCH 13TH, 2019
"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage." - FUCHAN YUAN
"Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." - CHINESE PROVERB
“To add value to others, one must first value others.” - JOHN C. MAXWELL
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - MAYA ANGELOU
“Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. VINCENT VAN GOGH

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY MONDAY MARCH 11TH, 2019
"He who has great power should use it lightly." - SENECA
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - HENRY ADAMS
"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day." - JESSE JACKSON
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”- JOHN C. MAXWELL
“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.” - HERB KELLEHER

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY SATURDAY MARCH 09TH, 2019
“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” - DAVE WEINBAUM
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - JOHN Q. ADAMS
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - MAX LUCADO

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY FRIDAY MARCH 08TH, 2019
“A person who graduated yesterday and stops studying today is uneducated tomorrow”.
----ANONYMOUS
“The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them”.
-------JOHN PLAMENATZ
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted”------ALBERT EINSTEIN

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY THURSDAY MARCH 07TH, 2019
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”
ALVIN TOFFLER
“The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the word is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service works”.
PETER F. DRUCKER
"Companies...have a hard time distinguishing between the cost of paying people and the value of investing in them".
THOMAS A. STEWART

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23RD, 2019
“If one advances in the direction of his dreams, one will meet with success unexpected in common hours”. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it—every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have”. —JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III

“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong horse that pulls the whole cart”.
—WINSTON CHURCHILL

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21ST, 2019
“Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording”.
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL
"Success at the highest level comes down to one question: 'Can you make the choice that your happiness can come from someone else's success?' No one has qualities like courage, vision, charisma, adaptability, and decisiveness in equal measure. But every great leader does make the same decision--and so can you." JEFF HADEN

“Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates”. STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20TH, 2019
"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." You can't save a doomed ship, and even if there's a chance, the odds of succeeding are slim to none. Choose your projects wisely. Great management isn't born; it's made. Anyone has the makings of a leader, but how quickly you learn is up to you”.
WARREN BUFFETT ON BAD ECONOMICS
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too." – SAM RAYBURN
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere”. —LEE IACOCCA

MANAGEMENT QUOTE FOR THE DAY TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 2019
“We are taught how to set up businesses and how to manage them effectively. We are taught how to build competences and competitive strategy but nobody speaks about spiritual well-being or what I call the God-factor in business. Sometimes we are told of ethical factors in businesses, but it will sounds hollow and shallow with no structured underpinning”.
MAZI SAM I. OHUABUNWA, OFR

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
WARREN BENNIS

"Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term." You should be able to see the forest for the trees, but still quickly identify a pine vs. a maple. In other words, set short-term goals that will snowball into long-term goal achievement. JACK WELCH
“It is better to take a risk for success and fall than to harbor the fear of failure and still fail”.
MAZI SAM I. OHUABUNWA, OFR