The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We… — Daphne Koller Copy Share Image
To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed… — Robert Spector Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they… — John Replogle Copy Share Image
It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone… — Gary Pruitt Copy Share Image
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold… — Maureen Chiquet Copy Share Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
On my very first day at T-Mobile, I demanded that every time I spoke publicly to the company, all employees across the… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you…you… — Don Farrell Copy Share Image
“Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person. — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them. — Eric Harvey Copy Share Image
“Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding. — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of… — Charles H. Percy Copy Share Image
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Every single employee is someone’s son or someone’s daughter. Like a parent, a leader of a company is responsible for their precious… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image