Robert Heller
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.Collection: Success
Fear is excitement without breath.Collection: Fear
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.Collection: Love
Effective management always means asking the right question.Collection: Mean
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.Collection: Teamwork
The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.Collection: Business
Think before you act: it's not your money.Collection: Business
Cash in must exceed cash out.Collection: Business
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.Collection: People
Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.Collection: Attitude
Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.Collection: Successful
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.Collection: Want
Either an executive can do his job or he can't.Collection: Jobs
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.Collection: Differences
The first myth of management is that it exists.Collection: Boss
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.Collection: Answers
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.Collection: Lying
All good management is the expression of one great ideaCollection: Business
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.Collection: Business
Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.Collection: Business
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.Collection: Running
No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.Collection: Thinking
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.Collection: Business
If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.Collection: Business
If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.Collection: Business
Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.Collection: Information