“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Tom DeMarco (1940) American software engineer, author, and consultant
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 34.
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“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Tom DeMarco (1940) American software engineer, author, and consultant
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 34.
Edgar H. Schein (1928) Psychologist
Source: Organizational Culture and Leadership, 1985, p. 11
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 71; the earliest published occurrence of such remarks yet located were those of Jim Low in "The Human in Public Relations" a diner address in Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Research Institute, October 13-14, 1958, Washington, Pt. 3, p. 83
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W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
"Salt of the Earth" (co-written with Keith Richards) on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet (1968).
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Michael Hammer (1948–2008) American academic
Source: Reengineering the Corporation, 1993, p. 11
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“The anger management is not working.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Cut It Out (2004)
“The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)