A Quote by Leila Janah

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Leila Janah

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Leila Janah
American - Businesswoman
Born: October 9, 1982

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Tom Gegax

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Jim McDonough

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

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Courtney A. Kemp

I think the mental preparation isn't something that you can work on in one large sum. It has to be a collective collaboration of doing little things for your mental state constantly throughout the prep and managing your life outside the Octagon, managing your life in transit to the Octagon, managing your life once you get to training.

Robert Whittaker

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Dee Hock

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

Russell Brand

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

Henry Mintzberg

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

Mohamed ElBaradei

A big part of managing is managing defeats and assessing where you are. It's making sure that you prepare a group of players and that you create an environment that is a competitive one but that is also a realistic one.

Chris Hughton

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Henry Mintzberg

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

Howard Schultz

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).