It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing the degree and level of work that he should be doing and, at the same time, have a clean desk.

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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to smell a real fact from all others.

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My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to?

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Management is more fun, more creative, more personal, more political and more intuitive than any textbook.

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Management by trust, empathy, and forgiveness sounds good. It also sounds soft. It is in practice tough. Organizations based on trust have, on occasion, to be ruthless.

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Most of our organization tends to be arranged on the assumption that people cannot be trusted... that sort of attitude creates a paraphernalia of systems, checkers, and checkers checking checkers � expensive and deadening.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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