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“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”
Agha Hasan Abedi
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
Thomas J. Peters
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
Lao Tzu
“A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.”
Scott Allen
“The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him”
Mark Twain
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.”
Will Rogers
“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”
Scott Adams
“Effective management always means asking the right question.”
Robert Heller