A Quote by John Kao

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

John Kao

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John Kao
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Born: 1950

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

John Kao

One classic mistake is when people give the impression that they just want a job, not this job or this company in particular. From a hiring manager's perspective, you're looking for someone who is excited about this role or this company.

Kathryn Minshew

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

Katie Cassidy

It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.

Edwin Catmull

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Brian Lee

Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.

Norm Crosby

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

Mary Walton

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Henry Samueli

Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father's company paid, in a Cadillac his father's company leased to 'scope out properties,' Donald's job description seems to have included lying about his 'accomplishments' and allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Black people.

Mary L. Trump

The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view - which is often very focused on the creative task itself - and the resource-allocation process. The impresario has to make certain the funds and people required to get that task completed are available.

John Kao

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

Peter Drucker

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Dennis Bergkamp

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.

John Kao

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

Patty Duke

But one thing I would like to certainly clarify that I am no player-manager, nor is my company a talent management company. That needs to be very clear.

Anil Kumble

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

John D. Rockefeller

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