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“A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.”

Should Leadership Business Leader Skills Compare Employee Technical Skills

Author:Jack Ma

“It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.”

People Choices Force Leadership Empowering Employee Productive Engagement Workforce

Author:Richard Branson

“You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.”

Ifs Needs Important Done Leadership Missions Employee Engagement Compelling

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.”

Leadership Investment Privilege Employee Staying Engagement Employee Engagement

Author:Ian Hutchinson

“We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.”

Want Purpose Environment Competition Climate Educational Customers Superiors Employee Belonging Customer Satisfaction Inspiring Customer Service

Author:Horst Schulze

“Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.”

Needs Real Process Leader Management Educational Superiors Managers Employee Controlled Selection Motivate Employees

Author:Horst Schulze

“A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.”

“We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.”

Should Law Pay Speech Employee Time Off

Author:William J. Clinton

“When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.”

Persons Bits Deals Promise News Agree Excellence Checks Employee

Author:C. P. Scott

“There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.”

Country Enough Stories Bravery Everyday Saving Employee Everyday Life Afghan Unesco

Author:Lakhdar Brahimi

“Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.”

“If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.”

Ifs Running Powerful Consumers Employee Shareholders

Author:Richard Branson

“Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.”

Levels Cities Conditions Authority Population Employee Daily Life Hospitality Facilitate Exemplary Geneva Living Conditions

Author:Margaret Chan

“Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.”

Feels Information Employee Sharing Information Information Sharing

Author:Glen Mazzara

“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”

“A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.”

Effort Successful Cost Gains Firm Employee

Book:Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

“I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.”

Should Believe Should Have Don't Believe Including Access Employee Employers Passwords

Author:Larry Bucshon

“Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.”

One Day Concepts Employee Irrelevant Reliance Shareholders

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.”

Knows Stuff Company Absolutes Entrepreneur Employee Substitutes Prerequisites Large Companies

Author:Fred C. Koch

“Self-Checkout Line The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.”

Self Lines Customers Employee Establishment Checkouts

Author:Richard Turner

“When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.”

Whole Inspiration Motivation Company Risk Train Rewards Employee Preparing

Author:Morgan Spurlock

“The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.”

World May Long Raises Court Supreme Granted Employee Healthcare Hobbies Arrangements Supreme Court Ruling Employers Parental

Author:Uwe Reinhardt

“The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.”

Way Meaningful Employee Paychecks

Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

“I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it.. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the IKEA employees.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Looks Reason Seems Asks Bits Class Example Waste Customers Abundance Employee Good Examples First Class Good Leader Good Leadership Ikea

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants.”

Employee Korean Tenants

Author:Donald Sterling

“Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.”

Self Jobs Hate Voice Talking Skills Meetings Be Good Loud Employee Nonsense Depressing Promotion Impressive Hate Me Self Promotion Talking Nonsense

Author:Michael Foley

“A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.”

People Knows Long Culture Secret Company Forever Findings Long Time Passionate Insight Customers Engaged Employee Long Time Ago Kevin

Author:Quint Studer

“More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.”

Ifs Position Being The Best Employee Veteran

Author:Eric Shinseki

“I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best co-worker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen. Having people be mad at me is my worst fear. I can't stand it. There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.”

Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth

“You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.”

“We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.”

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.”

People Ifs Inspirational Wish Power Influence Discipline Entrepreneur Faithful Employee Interaction Faithfulness Interacting Being Faithful Social Interaction Distributors Interacting With Others

Author:Jim Rohn

“What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.”

Jobs Can Do Work Workers Employee Employers Columnists Job Well Done

Author:Thomas Friedman

“As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.”

Knows Leader Organization Employee

Author:Jack Welch

“The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.”

Employee Productive

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.”

Leader Managers Employee Followers

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.”

Firsts Thirds Customers Employee Shareholders

Author:Jack Ma

“Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.”

Moral Honest Position Believer Obligation Employee Tempted Employers True Believer Moral Obligation

Author:Frank Abagnale

“In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.”

People Want Matter Action Values Views Company Successful Share Employee Integrating Personal Values Successful Company

Author:Jeroen van der Veer

“Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.”

People Giving Challenges Ambition Surprise Missions Employee

Author:Richard Branson

“When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.”

Feels Made Jobs Turns Decision Faults Employee

Author:Akio Morita

“Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity”

Two Creativity Risk Information Resources Organization Management Employee Risk Management

Author:William Hunter

“The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.”

Long Term Community Environment Risk Gains Organization Aim Management Customers Long Term Employee Risk Management Suppliers

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information”

Ifs Quality Company Risk Information Tools Innovation Management Productivity Practicals Employee Risk Management

Author:William Hunter

“Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.”

Giving Party Risk Evidence Performances Management Decades Traditional Managers Employee Suspects Risk Management Appraisal

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.”

Use Jobs Risk Particular Tools Encouragement Management Data Employee Risk Management

Author:George E. P. Box

“We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.”

People Men Mother Turns Found Inspiring Issues Solutions Tables Work Out Acknowledge Employee Employers Mothers Day

Author:James Levine

“This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.”

Claims Bills Decades Lawyer Trials Discrimination Employee Initials Employers Trial Lawyers Employment Discrimination

Author:Buck McKeon

“I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.”

Thinking Should Europe Paid Average Employee Boss Gaps Underpaid

Author:Michael O'Leary

“We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.”

Members Fellows Employee Disability Crew Enthusiastic

Author:Carl Karcher

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