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Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers – it’s strictly for amateurs.
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133 |
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It is particularly important that managers have the right kind of ambition, because anything else will be exceptionally demotivating for their employees.
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155 |
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The key to a good one-on-one meeting is the understanding that it is the employee’s meeting rather than the manager’s meeting.
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176 |
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During the [one-on-one] meeting, since it’s the employee’s meeting, the manager should do 10 percent of the talking and 90 percent of the listening.
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177 |
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You want to optimize the organization for the people -for the people doing the work – not for the managers.
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189 |
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Predicting whether an executive can scale corrupts your ability to manage, is unfair, and doesn’t work.
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195 |
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No training as a manager, general manager, or in any other job actually prepares you to run a company.
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202 |
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…your loyalty must go to your employees – the people who report to your executives… You own them a world-class management team. That’s the priority.
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256 |
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…management precedes and even outranks ownership. The owner has to subordinate himself to the enterprise’s need for management and managers.
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002 |
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Without the institution, there would be no management. But without management, there would be only a mob rather than an institution.
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