Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Planning and Management

  "The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." -Robert Conquest

"Most conspiracy theorists have never been project planners." - Merlin Mann

"By their memos you shall know them."  - Tony Frewin

"My experience is that many corporate decisions are arrived at by a process not far removed from consulting sheep entrails." -Cecil Adams

"Dotted lines on organizational charts seldom point to buried treasure." " -Jim Britell

“Rome, meet Nike” – Isaac Gilman

"He looked like Gandhi, dreamed like Edison, and planned like Custer." -Jeff Taylor

"It is the nature of emergencies to be inconvenient." -Terri Weiner

"I didn't go immediately, of course, as I hadn't made up enough reasons." -Don Berry

"As master plans go, this was the equivalent of a guy on the Titanic calling room service for more ice." -Jerry Izenberg

 "The real policies of any organization are what its employees actually do." -Jim Britell