It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.
But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
