Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women
As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.
Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production. . . This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.
Producers are now employees, not creators.
Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.
I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.
Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out. "
By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.
Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.
You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.