personnel— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments
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.
It is but a truism that labour is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labour is inefficient labour, all over the world.
The fields of industry are strewn with the bones of those organizations whose leadership became infested with dryrot, who believed in taking instead of giving... who didn't realize that the only assets that could not be replaced easily were the human ones.