A Quote by Myron Tribus

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.

Myron Tribus

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Myron Tribus
American - Engineer
October 30, 1921 - August 31, 2016

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Freeman Dyson

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

W. Edwards Deming

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Freeman Dyson

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

Mike Trout

If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

Bradford Winters

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Andrew Solomon

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

John C. Maxwell

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

Evan Sharp

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.

Bobb Biehl

We need a new generation of executives who understand how to manage and lead through data. And we also need a new generation of employees who are able to help us organize and structure our businesses around that data.