Backwards Quote by Fred Allen

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

— Bill Gates

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

— Lou Gerstner

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to…

— D. Wayne Calloway

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if…

— Al Ries

“There’s the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they’re worn thin and easy to see through. You don’t…

— Saul Bellow

“It’s exceedingly difficult for employees to have the company’s back when they can’t trust the company to have theirs. Actually, it’s impossible.”

— Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

“If you walked back in time, you would realize that lead generation was never a highly spoken about topic. This was because companies did…

— MikeLoryy

“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

“two-thirds of companies across a spectrum of industries didn’t realize they had been breached until someone outside the company informed them.”

— Ted Koppel

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.

— David M. Cote

“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for stealth in…

— Jane Mayer

One day offices will be a thing of the past

— Richard Branson