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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

Management must manage!

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.