“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.” LevelsBusinessDutyPostsAccomplishedEmployeeHierarchyIncompetenceIncompetent Author:Laurence J. Peter
“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.” MomentsNextLevelsBusinessCompanyMissingPerformancesThat MomentDeclineMissing YouNext Level Author:Andy Grove
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.” BelieveCountryPastValuesSoundLevelsCommonBusinessSituationTakenWeekConditionsSonAmountDestructionFundamentalsInvestmentMy SonContinuingWarrantsPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?” FeelsYearsMadeThreePerfectLevelsBusinessCompanyEconomicActivityPassionateListsCirclesOur FamilyResolutionNew YearCornerstonesNew Years ResolutionMirroringFeels Just Author:James C. Collins
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.” IfsAbilityLevelsBusinessCreatingChickens Author:Ross Perot
“The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.” PeopleWantGuyNextSocialLevelsBusinessRestaurantsNext DayThis GuyThat GuyBumps Author:Kevin Bacon
“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.” WayShouldHandsGovernmentLevelsBusinessRolesHellIssuesFieldsEmploymentHand In HandPlaying Fields Book:I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” ThinkingInspirationalProblemMotivationalSuccessBeliefInspiringLevelsBusinessDignitySignificantSolved ProblemsSame Thinking Author:Albert Einstein
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.” HelpingUseLevelsBusinessMediaHigherMassLiftsHigher LevelMass MediaMedia BiasAdvertising Business Author:William Bernbach
“We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.” HumansLevelsBusinessCreativityLosingIncreaseInsightCustomersDataAccountabilityRelevantPerpetualMarketersPlanners Author:John Woodward
“What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more intense level than it has ever before been because the barriers to providing information in the virtual world are so low and the choice of provider nearly infinite.” PeopleWorldTodayChoicesLevelsBusinessCompanySuccessfulMediaInformationLowsInfiniteCompetitionIntenseBarriersProvidingProvidersVirtual World Author:James Murdoch