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• The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

  Laszlo Bock

  Opportunity, Focus, Purpose

  Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

  Tom Gegax

  Jobs, Self, People

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• I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

  Robert Crandall

  Important, Doe, Investment

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• We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church. Please be careful you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his flock, letting his sheep graze.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Fall, Sheep

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• Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.

  Herb Kohl

  Years, Want, Healthcare

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• The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Giving, Competition

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• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Organization, Looks, News

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.

  Larry Ellison

  Important, Care, Visible

  "Oracle's Larry Ellison: How to Manage Your Most Precious Assets". www.forbes.com. February 3, 2014.

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• We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

  Mitch Daniels

  Smart, Choices, Low Income

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Pride, Keys

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• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

  Jack Welch

  Management, Holding On, Failing

  “WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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• Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

  Jack Welch

  Strategy, Results, Shareholder Value

  "Simple sermon on ethics won't do". www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

  John Ortberg

  Often Is, Boss, Extroverts

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.75, Zondervan

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• Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Family And Friends

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 18, 2014

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Believe, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Fire, Long

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• Employees will only add more value over time.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Add, Values

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

  Sam Altman

  Failing, Structure, Fine

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• As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

  Sam Altman

  Jobs, Size, Building

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• ... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Fire, Working It

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• When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Work, Smart

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Goal, Doe, Wealth

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• I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

  Edward Albee

  Fashion, Writing, Years

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• Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Leadership, Eight

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Mushrooms, Return

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