Sentence examples for be a poor manager from inspiring English sources

Though he professed to be a poor manager — "that's why I hired these guys," he laughed, pointing to Mr. Hsieh and another executive — Mr. Yu had the qualities you yearn to see in any company leader.

Morsi proved to be a poor manager and an unpopular president.

Mr. Gaffney scoffed at Democratic assertions that he was a poor manager.

The former head of modern languages admitted that he was a poor manager of money.

A company might fail because its timing was bad or because the entrepreneur was a poor manager.

A defense lawyer, Guy Cook, said Mr. Rubashkin had been a poor manager who was overwhelmed by trying to sustain the business founded by his father, Aaron Rubashkin.

He was a poor manager of his own affairs and an inveterate gambler, wildly extravagant when in funds, generous sometimes beyond his means to people in distress.

He said Mr. Kasparov was a poor manager and that groups he started, like the Professional Chess Association in the 1990s, had failed.

Recognizing that he was a poor manager, and needing to buffer those emotional and financial swings, Andreessen saw that the obvious next move was a portfolio of investments.

The Democrats, firing back, charged that Mr. Gaffney was a poor manager with a lackadaisical approach to governing that was ill suited to harsher economic times.

As national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice has been a poor manager and inept at ensuring that correct intelligence is provided to the president.