Popular Quotes from Management Gurus

Top 50 Popular Quotes from Management Gurus Leadership and Management philosophies differ from a management guru to another management guru. Here are 50 useful quotes from top notch management doyens that will help you understand the various facets of management from their rich experience. You can treat these quotes as a starting point to build your dreams. Michael Porter  Strategy Quotes from Michael Porter  Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.”“The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.”“The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.”“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”“The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the ceo.”“If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.”“Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.”“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”“Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.”“So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.” Stephen Covey Leadership Quotes from Stephen Covey  “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”“There are three constants in life… Change, choice and principles.”Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”“Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”“When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Quotes from Daniel Goleman “Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.”“Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.”“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.”“There is zero correlation between iq and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.”“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”“Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”“the emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.”“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” Ken Blanchard  Productivity Quotes from Ken Blanchard “The productivity of a work group...