“Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.” CountryProblemDecisionResultsGrowingPolicyIncomeInequalityExecutivesReceivingDistributionIncentivesCompensationImplicationsExecutive CompensationIncome Distribution Author:Barney Frank
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.” ImportantDifferentYoungActorsPresidentDifferencesResultsSubjectsLessonsWideFirmExecutivesPrincipalSeniorNegotiationSpectrumIdenticalImportant LessonsLessons To Be Learned Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.” IfsPoliticalSufferingResultsPartyBuildingVictoryRepublicanSouthDefeatAdministrationReformEtcExecutivesPolitical PartiesPublic LifeLegislatureBuilding UpGreat VictoryCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.” ThinkingShouldYearsMadeLastsChallengesDecisionResultsPolicyInspireThousandTenBuiltProportionExecutivesProvokingRight DecisionMorris Author:William Morris
“During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.” HandsAbleJobsBeliefResultsFocusSecurityChangedEmotionalTasksCrisisFinancialExecutivesFinancial CrisisTask At Hand Author:Andrew Bernstein
“The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.” LiteratureResultsBranchesExecutivesExecutive Branch Author:Andrew Cohen