"Getting the right people for the right job. That's what makes the difference between a good manager and a drone."
"Get the right people. Then, no matter what all else you may do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about."
"Four essentials of Good Managemnt: * Get the right people * Match them to the right jobs * Keep them motivated, * Help their teams to jell and stay jelled. (Alf the rest is administivia.)"
"Safety and Change : * People can't embrace change unless they feel safe. * Change is essential to all success in project work (and in most other worth- while endeavors). * A lack of safety makes people risk-averse. * Avoiding risk is fatal, since it causes. you to miss out on the associated benefit "
"Negative Reinforcernent : * Threats are an imperfect way to moti-vate performance. * No matter how serious the threat, the work still won't get done on time if the time originally allocated for it was not sufficient. * Worse still, if the target doesn't get met, you may actually have to make good on"
"The real world requires close, warm, and almost intimate interconnections between team members, and easy, effective, interaction through the whole organization."
"The Manager's Essential Body Parts : * Management involves heart, gut, soul, and nose. lead with the heart, trust your gut (trust your hunches), build soul into the organization, develop a nose for bullshit."