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"Marketing management is now tribal leadership."
"Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses."
"If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road."
"Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves."
"If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life."
"Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability."
"We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good."
"The difference between mere management and leadership is communication."
"Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not."
"Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so."
"Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage."
"Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management."
"Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution."
"[Management] has authority only as long as it performs."
"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
"I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise."
"A boat can't have two captains."
"The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation."
"Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management"