Top Management

When you take risks

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres

To win in the

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. Douglas Conant

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. … Read more

Hire people who are

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. David Ogilvy

Pressure is something you

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. Chuck Noll

I have yet to

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. Charles R. Schwab

In life and business,

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process … Read more

The resource allocation task

The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. C. K. Prahalad

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. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . . Buck Rodgers

One of the things

One of the things I’ve had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. Bill Ford