Harvard-business-review Quote by W. Chan Kim

“Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.”

— Orrin Woodward

“What I thought were poor performing employees were actually poisoned employees.”

— Steven Magee

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

— John T. Chambers

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no…

— Tom Rath

“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

“The worst employer is the one who vents his frustrations on his employees.”

— Haresh Sippy

“Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“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

“Organizations thrive when leaders make the right decisions, and they fail when leaders make the wrong ones. What is often less obvious is the…

— R. Albert Mohler Jr

“Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“TRUTH #1: Work is suffering. The ability to boss other people around destroys much of human decency.”

— Stanley Bing

“Those who are weakest often tend to blame others for their own incompetence.”

— Gabriella Geach