personnel— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments
Dear bosses, that you may well be victim to a game of mutual deception, where you are deluding yourself into believing that you are great at your job, but if you really knew how it felt to work for you, you would be shocked to discover that you are seen as an asshole, incompetent, or both.
The very act of wielding power can make you blind to how your subordinates are really responding to you.
People quit bosses, not organizations for the most part.
If you are a boss and believe that your people love you and will never leave you, well, it just might be a good time to look in the mirror.
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
A manager is an assistant to his men.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate always agrees with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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.
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
Get the best people and train them well.
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.