“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
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People Quotes — page 758 of 5018
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.”
“No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.”
“Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.”
“People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.”
“The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.”
“The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"”
“We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.”
“Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.”
“Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.”
“We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.”
“I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.”
“What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.”
“The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.”
“For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another.”
“People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.”
“Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.”
“The world is changing and people don't like change.”
“I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.”
“Women are afraid of walking at night, that someone pulls them into an alley and rapes them. That almost never happens. I mean, 98% of people who are raped, are raped by somebody they know. Somebody goes too far. But the destruction is just the same.”