EXECUTIVES

Related Subjects: Authority, Responsibility

1. Executive duties represent applied thinking. They consist in taking past experience, analyzing it and bringing it to bear upon an existing situation. That the personnel entrusted with this important function shall be the very best available, is the objective of progressive management.—R. E. BELL, Selecting an Executive
   

2. The ultimate aim of management policy is the reduction of executive turnover to the vanishing point.—R. E. BELL, Selecting an Executive
   

3. An executive is a person who is responsible for the efforts of others, makes decisions on questions both as to policy and practice, and exercises authority in seeing that decisions are carried out.—CLEETON & MASON, Executive Ability
   

4. What the future holds for all of us depends in a large measure on the intelligence, breadth of vision, and leadership of those in executive positions.—CLEETON & MASON, Executive Ability
   

5. An executive who lacks those personal qualities which instantly secure wholehearted response from subordinates may be considered a failure as a leader, but if he recognizes this shortcoming, and selects subordinates who have the qualities of leadership necessary to facilitate carrying out his plans, he may still be a success as an executive.—CLEETON & MASON, Executive Ability
   

6. The tyrant and autocrat who succeeded a generation ago, would be a failure today. . . . Try to picture Alexander the Great, Cheops, the builder of the Pyramids, Disraeli, Andrew Jackson, or E. H. Harriman using the conference method of executive control.—CLEETON & MASON, Executive Ability
   

7. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.—J. G. POLLARD
   

8. Better direct well than work hard.—Proverb