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Dear Boss! Don't be a boss-hole.
A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
We lead people, but we manage things.
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.
Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.
Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.
When you fail to be your own boss,
You are giving somebody else the contract.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
Who's the boss?
TONY DANZA, YOU PRICK!
Managers are the most creative people in the world.
Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, I am the boss! I am the boss!
Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.
There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable.
Employers are like horses - they require management.
I'm a terrific boss, and I'll brutally sabotage the career of any underling who says different.
The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
I'm not bossy, I'm the boss.
I've got corporate executives, my bosses ... this is true ... who will text message me ... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that.
Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.
I am not bossy, I am the boss.
Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?
Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.
First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.
Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.
Every boss started as a worker.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.
You manage things; you lead people.
Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.
When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.
I am the boss of my underpants. You can be the boss of yours.
As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.
Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.
Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.
Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
You're not bossy, you're the boss.
Be the leader, not the boss.
Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.
Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.
The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.
Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.
In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.
Managers are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless
I get to choose the people I work with.
The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.
You know what I hate about working? Bosses ... The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well ... I think you see the conflict.
Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
I find myself using the word 'executives' now.
you people's departments
I've never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you're the one who owns me.
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.
Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses.
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
Aspire to never have a boss.
As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.
I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.
I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
You ain't the boss of me, sir, you surely ain't. The only thing you could do right now is kill me, and you still wouldn't be the boss of me.' There
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.
The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
As the old-school approach of command-and-control leadership fades, companies in all industries will inevitably move in the same direction as these tech firms, and try to tap into the deeper passions of employees.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Offices are peculiar places and nobody is ever quite sure what happens in them, least of all the people who work there. But the day tends to begin with a morning meeting, in which everybody decides what they will fail to do for the rest of the day.
A leader organizes people whether they know it or not.
Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce. But the soul refuses to be harnessed; it knows nothing of Day Timers and deadlines and P&L statements. The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life.
When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
Those that are above business.
Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!
To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.