I'm really pleased to have signed with Activate Management and am really looking forward to exploring my commercial opportunities with them around the world.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce.
We're trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one.
Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.
There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.
Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his 'Scientific Management' doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
