Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
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.
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women
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.
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. "
Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.
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.
American managers often say they would like to pay their employees more, they argue that they can't afford to do so and, at the same time, keep the prices of their products competitive. As one CEO recently explained, "I would treat my employees as well as Starbuck's treats theirs, if I could charge the equivalent for my product of three dollars for a cup of latte!"
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
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.
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.