First place Quote by James C. Collins

“Nothing creates a sense of ownership in employees more than treating them like owners.”

— Barry Banther

“Listen, this is just an unpleasant part of our job sometimes. Those executives know that I took a bullet for them. I’ll make sure…

— Patrick Lencioni

“Executives also owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. It may not be…

— Harvard Business School Press

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

“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

“leadership often comes with a lot of executive responsibility, but not always the authority afforded to executives.”

— Richard Banfield

“Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And…

— Assegid Habtewold

“One of the reasons why CEOs fail is an inability to execute, and this is also one of the reasons why first-line supervisors through…

— Robert C. Ginnett Richard L. Hughes Gordon J. Curphy

“the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.”

— Duffy Robbins

When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.

— Howard Lutnick

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial…

— Tom Rath