Jeffrey Pfeffer Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Information Sharing, People, Giving

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• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Father, Issues, Long

• Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Self, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• People, to maintain their self-esteem, tend to believe they are above average on all positive qualities - height, income, intelligence, sense of humor, negotiating ability, you name it. The problem is that if we are going to really build our skills, we need to know which skills are most deficient. So, I advise people to find confidantes to tell them the truth. And then act on that knowledge to build the abilities they need to be more successful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Believe, Successful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• Everyone faces defeats, setbacks, reversals of fortune. But just like water wearing away rock, persistence triumphs. Resilience is one of the most important qualities I would look at in trying to predict who is going to be ultimately successful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Successful, Persistence, Water

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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