Quotes About Stakeholders

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

Typically, the view of party leaders is that primaries are best avoided. Better to coalesce around a consensus candidate early, help that candidate amass a mighty bankroll, and focus the attention of volunteers, activists and other stakeholders on the general election.

People look at track records now, and voters as stakeholders want ease of living and development, which is my aim.

The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.

Why do we care for our stakeholders in this particular order? The interests of our own employees must be placed directly ahead of those of our guests because the only way we can consistently earn raves, win repeat business, and develop bonds of loyalty with our guests is first to ensure that our own team members feel jazzed about coming to work. Being jazzed is a combination of feeling motivated, enthusiastic, confident, proud, and at peace with the choice to work on our team.

Another strategy for dealing with meddling stakeholders is to overwhelm them with tasks and communication. They insist on being involved, so involve them. If they have time to be this involved, give them work to do and assign actions to keep them busy with nonrisky or unimportant activities. Real work often makes people invisible and may make a meddling stakeholder invisible too.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

Companies with long histories of successfully embracing change and reinvention have a shared disdain for waste and indulgence, which probably comes from the fact that during their formative years they had to count on ingenuity instead of cash to maintain momentum and keep on creating better tomorrows for all the stakeholders.

Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.

So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.

Educating the world's poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders - both domestic and international - to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.

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Effective HR professionals recognize, accept, and act on a new normal in business. When faced with "tell us about your business," they can respond by discussing global changes in context, stakeholders, and strategies. These shifts are not cyclical events that will return to a former state—they are a new normal grounded on enormous disruptive and evolutionary changes.

You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.

Coca-Cola's former president William Robinson, who in 1959 told an audience at Fordham Law School that executives should not put stockholders first. They should "balance the interests of the stockholder, the community, the customer, and the employee.

Every software system provides two different values to the stakeholders: behavior and structure. Software developers are responsible for ensuring that both those values remain high. Unfortunately, they often focus on one to the exclusion of the other.

The first value of software is its behavior. Programmers are hired to make machines behave in a way that makes or saves money for the stakeholders. We do this by helping the stakeholders develop a functional specification, or requirements document. Then we write the code that causes the stakeholder's machines to satisfy those requirements.

When the stakeholders change their minds about a feature, that change should be simple and easy to make. The difficulty in making such a change should be proportional only to the scope of the change, and not to the shape of the change.

We develop features before infrastructure and frequently show those features to stakeholders.