Management Quotes
Here are the qualifications you need:
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.
-- Rockefeller Panel Report: The Performing Arts
Here is the philosophy you should support:
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is -- if not dead
-- dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social
and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual
and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the
theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in
the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
Here is what the job will be like:
MANAGEMENT UPDATE
As nearly everyone knows, a manager has practically nothing to do except to
decide what is to be done; to tell somebody to do it; to listen to reasons why it
should not be done, why it should be done by someone else, or why it should be done
in a different way; to follow up to see if the thing has been done; to discover that it
has not; to inquire why; to listen to excuses from the person who should have done
it; to follow up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover that it
has been done incorrectly; to point out how it should have been done; to conclude that as
long as it has been done, it may as well be left where it is; to wonder if it is
not time to get rid of a person who cannot do a thing right; to reflect that he or
she probably has a family, and that certainly any successor would be just as bad, and maybe
worse; to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have been done if
one had done it oneself in the first place; to reflect sadly that one could have
done it right in 20 minutes, and, as things turned out, one had to spend two days to find out
why it has taken three weeks for somebody else to do it wrong.
-- Anonymous
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