Project Management Quotes

“The alternative to systematic planning is decision-making based on history. This generally results in reactive management leading to crisis management, conflict management, and fire fighting.”
― Harold R. Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

“If we superimpose the management gaps on top of the functional gaps, we find that companies are made up of small operational islands that refuse to communicate with one another for fear that giving up information may strengthen their opponents.”
― Harold R. Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

“To eliminate or reduce uncertainty To improve efficiency of the operation To obtain a better understanding of the objectives To provide a basis for monitoring and controlling work”
― Harold R. Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

“During the past thirty years there has been a so-called hidden revolution in the introduction and development of new organizational structures. Management has come to realize that organizations must be dynamic in nature; that is, they must be capable of rapid restructuring should environmental conditions so dictate. These environmental factors evolved from the increasing competitiveness of the market, changes in technology, and a requirement for better control of resources for multiproduct firms. More than forty years ago, Wallace identified four major factors that caused the onset of the organizational revolution”
― Harold Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach To Planning, Scheduling, And Controlling