“I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.” PeopleI CanFeelingsAsksCompanyGrowingOfficeFingersPracticalsPulseCubicles Author:Kevin P. Ryan
“Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.” PeopleBookCultureCompanyProduceGainsAdvantageToolsProfoundDrivingPracticalsOutcomesEnginesOfferingCompetitive Advantage Author:Joseph Michelli
“Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.” TwoWisdomPoliticsResponsibilityCompanyEconomyIndustryOughtElementsCapitalismVoteBlamePropertyPracticalsManageLiberalismConceptionOwnershipPrivate PropertyPostcardsProxyProperty Ownership Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.” MenShouldKindLittlesMadeDifferentDoneMovingPresidentCompanyKnowingSonCircumstancesOrganizationStrongerPlantWorkersBottomConvincedLawyerPracticalsTitlesExecutivesFactoriesDifferent KindsLaddersChairmanRisenCollarsPapaWorkmenCuffsFinanciersAdvisable Author:B. C. Forbes
“In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.” PeopleCharacterCompanyGreaterSkillsWeightEducationalPracticalsBackgroundsAttributesGreat CompanyGood To GreatWork ExperienceEducational BackgroundPractical Skills Author:James C. Collins
“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.” HomeAmericaScienceEasyAnimalCompanyPracticalsForestsRegionsNeverthelessMonopolyFurWild AnimalEvergreensWoods And Forests Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American