The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
When I go to T-Mobile retail stores, I jokingly tell the employees that everybody between me and them is the enemy. In effect, what I mean is that in my paramilitary hierarchy, if I can hear them and they can hear me, everything will be fine. All we need to do is make sure the entire company understands that it's their job to pass information between us. And so far so good.
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.
If employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.
You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.
All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare.
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.
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
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.