Bad news Quote by Bill Gates

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report…

— Anonymous

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be…

— Bill Gates

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

“large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter’s Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who…

— Laurence J. Peter

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

— Jack Welch

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

— Simon Baker

“Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers,…

— John Médaille

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

— Gary Hamel

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not…

— Gary Hamel

Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly…

— Marc Randolph