Staffing Quotes

• Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

  Richard V. Allen

  Practice, Effort, Leader

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• Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.

  Janet Yellen

  Practice, Inventory, Way

  "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yellen's Remarks at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

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• You're only as good as the people you hire.

  Ray Kroc

  Leadership, Mcdonalds, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Relationship, Business, People

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• Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Hard Work, People

  Steve McConnell (1996). “Rapid Development”, p.297, Microsoft Press

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• Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

  Barry Boehm

  Teamwork, Poor Management, Cost

  "Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications". Book by Tyson Gill (p. 14), 2002.

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• Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

  Mara Liasson

  Government, Outsiders, Conservative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

  Simon Calder

  Safety, Balance, Should

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Decision, Challenges

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• A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.

  Larry Constantine

  Teamwork, People, Together

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• The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

  Larry Constantine

  Teamwork, Real, People

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• If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.

  Anthony Bourdain

  America, People, Chef

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

  Mark Kennedy

  Real, Borders, Resources

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• Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Two, Failing

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.7, Microsoft Press

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• For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

  John Cole

  Decision, Made, Omniscient

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• Finding specialty food items was a bit of a challenge in Asia in the early days of getting the Mozza's up and running. Everything is built on relationships, and when you start somewhere new, it takes time to develop that. Staffing can also present challenges.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Challenges, Asia

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• What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Government, Media

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• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  Felix Dennis

  Editors, Age, Monstrous

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• In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Strong, Together

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.51, Pearson Education

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• The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Jobs, Average

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press

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