It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
Management must manage!
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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