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Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.
I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.
Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
As a former federal employee, I understand the commitment to country that led federal employees to public service.
My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.
Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.
Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Our focus has been on having Accenture be a place where you can be successful as an employee at work and also at home.
Any time you have to tell work where you're at and what you're doing, that's considered an employee, not a contractor.
It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.
Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well.
Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.
No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.
The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.
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%.
Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
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.
Employment is a contract between an employer and an employee. Thus, laws prohibiting discriminatory pay are an infringement on private contracts.
I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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.
My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.
The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.
An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.