Management Training Quotes

“The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?”
― Stan Slap

“When you allocate yourself time, it is always easier to manage.”
― DON SANTO

“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.”
― Stan Slap

“Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.”
― Stan Slap

“There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.”
― Stan Slap

“Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space.”
― Harmon Okinyo

“For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“Let the energy of small victories permeate the spirits of those you lead.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business Leadership: The Key Elements

“Every team desires to win - and it is your duty as a leader to guide them to the victory.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business Leadership: The Key Elements

“Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.”
― Ravinder Tulsiani, Your Leadership Edge

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.”
― Kent Alan Robinson

“The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.”
― Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them

“Don't Hire Good....Hire Great.”
― Diane Polnow, 7 Secrets of Building Elite Sales Teams: Proven Ways to Increase Sales Results - For Sales Managers and Sales Executives

“You Work For Your Team, They Don't Work For You.”
― Diane Polnow, 7 Secrets of Building Elite Sales Teams: Proven Ways to Increase Sales Results -- For Sales Managers and Sales Executives

“Micromanagement could have unintended consequences. Instead of getting people in line, it may cause them to leave.”
― Diane Polnow, 7 Secrets of Building Elite Sales Teams: Proven Ways to Increase Sales Results -- For Sales Managers and Sales Executives

“Some people think that looking busy makes them more productive.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Do not apologize for having standards”
― Janna Cachola, Lead by choice, not by checks

“Management is a science to be strategically imbibed and an art to be executed. It involves planning, coordination, strategizing, and implementation. Thereby it involves a process to achieve a goal. It involves a process of optimum utilization of resources to achieve a goal.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, Legal Counsel & Author - Fundamentals of Airlines and Airports Management

“I've found that most people don't have a mental filing drawer labeled Times I Was Wrong. Its mislabeled Times I Was Lonely or Times So-And-So Was Angry.”
― Kathryn Schulz , [Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] [By: Schulz, Kathryn] [January, 2011]

“It was a mistake to follow my management training in high altitude professional astronomy. I never realized I was disciplining sickened staff that had become forgetful through altitude sickness that included oxygen starvation, adverse environmental exposures, central sleep apnea and mal-acclimatization!”
― Steven Magee

“There was no management training in high altitude professional astronomy that covered the long-term health effects that were appearing in their mal-acclimatized staff.”
― Steven Magee

“I would say 'Integrity first ! Streamlining individual actions for the greater organizational good'.
To restore trust after a stakeholder challenges your decision, acknowledge their concerns and engage in intent listening. Delineate your decision-making process and provide a well-substantiated rationale. Demonstrate a commitment to collaboration and receptivity to constructive criticism. Listen !! for strategic implementation that facilitates progressive results. Serving an organization requires prioritizing the collective good over individual agendas. Finally, fortify the relationship through consistent communication and constructive dialogue to enhance trust.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author