I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
