Quotes About Workplace

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Having a baby makes me grateful that I work for a company that does give you four months' leave. And my heart breaks for women that don't get that time with their child. As a mom, you're just not ready to go back immediately - physically, you can't. You just need some time not only to bond, but you need some time to heal.

If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Leaving Google was really hard. It's such an incredible place to work and the people there are fantastic.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of 'faking sick' and I stumbled across 'The View,' I've been confusedly asking myself the same question... How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.

I'm now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I'm actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I'm making myself sick emotionally and physically.

We all need support, in the workplace and beyond it. When we both give and receive, we stand a much better chance of survival.

When a workplace becomes toxic, its poison spreads beyond its walls and into the lives of its workers and their families.

Good times don't always last. Great organizations can lose their momentum. Life and work are difficult for all of us. But we can choose our attitude. And we can seek common cause with those of like spirit who see positive potential in persons and in our fragile workplaces.

When a workplace becomes toxic, its poison spreads beyond its walls and into the lives of its workers and their families. In contrast, positive organizations energize and inspire their workers. When forced to downsize, they try to soften reality's hard edges. Their leaders know organizations thrive when employees thrive.

If you cannot remember the last time you affirmed one of your collegues by words of affirmation that focused on his or her personality, let us encourage you to conciously look for their positive personality traits. Within the next two weeks, verbalize affirmation for a positive trait you observe. For some people, this is the primary way that they feel affirmed.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, what makes a job low skilled is not the nature of the work it entails, or the credentials required, but whether or not the people performing the task have the opportunity to grow their capabilities and tackle novel problems. The most important lesson to be gleaned from post-bureaucratic pioneers is that it's possible to radically upskill what would otherwise be regarded as low-skilled jobs

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.