Robert Heller Quotes
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Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.
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No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
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The first myth of management is that it exists.
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Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
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In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
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Either an executive can do his job or he can't.
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Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.
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Think before you act: it's not your money.
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Cash in must exceed cash out.
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No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
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If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.
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Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
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Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.
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No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.
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All good management is the expression of one great idea
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If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.
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The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.
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If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
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Effective management always means asking the right question.
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Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.
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Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
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Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
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Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.
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