Best 68 quotes in «manager quotes» category

A bee that makes honey is great, but a bee that makes other bees that make honey is extraordinary.

A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.

A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.

Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.

A good manager focuses on managing impediments, process, team’s health, protects the boundaries of self-organizing teams, promotes a healthy culture, and helps eliminate waste.

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.

A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Christians should be good managers and stewards of God’s riches

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

Development in general doesn’t make you better employee or better manager. Development makes you a better human who is able to invest the best in you to add beauty and meaning to your life and the rest of the world.

Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you can see it in the rush hour in the tired and sad-looking faces of so many commuters. The majority of people I coach are unhappy or dissatisfied with their working lives. They describe their work in so many depressing ways – as ‘boring’, ‘tedious’, ‘mind-numbing’, ‘stressful’, ‘painful’ or even ‘scary’. I hear similar opinions as I travel the world from all types of people no matter what their background, education or choice of career.

Follow few. Lead many. Walk with some. Embrace all.

How did harassing me work out for you in the end?

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

If the manager of a company can put the needs of their staff ahead of their own ego, then that business has a good chance of prospering.

If you focus on the strength of the team, you will begin to find work as a positive challenge.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards.

If you have to spend your time motivating people, you're not a leader, you're an ineffective manager.

I have worked at a number of facilities that had health and safety issues. Once the manager identifies safety issues and starts dealing with them, the upper management team undermines the manager involved and either fires them or does not renew their contract.

It really should not fall onto a sickened Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) manager to research the biological toxicity of the very high altitude summit research facilities.

Managers who insist that employees produce heaps of papers should know that such an approach may result in sloppy implementation.

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.

Managers have a knack of making things messier than they are

Me myself is enough to manage.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.

The greatest leaders are those who help others through their greatest struggles.

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

The training was so bad in high altitude astronomy that senior managers were feeding blatantly false information into their workers that was leading to them inadvertently damaging their long term health.

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.