Business-culture Quote by Stan Slap

“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.”

— Stan Slap

“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”

— Stan Slap

“The question is not how to get managers’ emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company.”

— Stan Slap

“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”

— Stan Slap

“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.”

— Stan Slap

“I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and…

— Ed Catmull

“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have…

— Stan Slap

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

— Stan Slap

“Managers aren’t bad people. But each of us is susceptible to the conveniences and small thrills of power. At”

— Laszlo Bock

“Most managers complain about having too little freedom in their jobs, while their bosses complain about managers’ failure to grasp opportunities.”

— Harvard Business Review

“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”

— Stan Slap

“Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.”

— Ed Catmull