“That’s part of what you’re being paid for — to get along reasonably well with people even if you don’t like them, to be reasonably pleasant to work with, and to regulate what emotions you display.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“I wasn’t quite ready for a desk job when I was finishing up school. A bunch of my classmates were going into I-Banking and management consulting jobs, and I just wasn’t ready to sit behind a desk. I wanted to go out in the world, and I figured it was a good time to see what else was out there. I’ve…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.org
“I wasn’t quite ready for a desk job when I was finishing up school. A bunch of my classmates were going into I-Banking and management consulting jobs, and I just wasn’t ready to sit behind a desk. I wanted to go out in the world, and I figured it was a good time to see what else was out there. I’ve…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.org
“You can get to a place where you can go by on the force of your personality, at a certain size. And then you get to a certain size and then you go, "Oh right, that becomes an impediment." Then people are judging by how close people are to you. Then getting access to you becomes the goal instead of d…”— Alex Blumberg, gimletmedia.com
“What was missing, which I'm trying to do now, is creating objective tools for people to understand 'what it is' not 'what I want'. Like, "Oh, Sophia wouldn't like that." I don't want that to be a conversation in a room ever. Whether I'm in it. Or even worse, when I'm not in the room. This is not abo…”— Sophia Amoruso, gimletmedia.com
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quoteinvestigator.com
“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent as your circumstances will admit and to be so, is to exert yourself in the management of your estate. If you do not no one else will.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“Deeply understand where someone is. What led them to their conclusions. And then to fill in context and sort of draw a path from where they are to you are. And then you can both walk on it. That's a much better way to both get to the truth and build a much stronger relationship with that person.”— J.D. Ross, offrcrd.com
“When I had an opinion whether I was right or wrong. I viewed my job as taking someone from their position to mine as efficiently as possible. That doesn't work.”— J.D. Ross, offrcrd.com
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, b…”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“Alignment meetings sound like this: ‘It’s red, are we all in agreement it’s red? Ok, swell. Wait, Phil thinks it’s blue. Phil, here are the 18 compelling reasons it’s red. Convinced? Done now?’ Creation meetings sound like this: ‘We need more blue. How are we going to do that? Phil, you’re our blue…”— Michael Lopp, randsinrepose.com
“He is a butcher and is not fit to be at the head of an army. Yes, he generally manages to claim a victory, but such a victory! He loses two men to the enemy's one. He has no management, no regard for life.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“Many managers over-involve themselves. Not even micromanage, but are simply around the work being done too often. They get in the way.”— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com
“When everything’s in one place, everyone knows where things are, where things stand, and everyone can be self-sufficient.”— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com
“When you find a cancer in an organization, you must cut it out before it can spread.”— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Briefly, we asked our respondents to describe periods in their lives when they were exceedingly happy and unhappy with their jobs. Each respondent gave as many "sequences of events" as he could that met certain criteria—including a marked change in feeling, a beginning and an end, and contained some…”— Frederick Herzberg, en.wikipedia.org
“I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know— not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur.”— Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, amazon.com