Quotes About Employee

The tech company needs to win in the war for talent. This means much greater focus on the employee, not simply as cog in the machine, but vital member of a programming team in a race against time and competitors. Wall Street is up-or-out, dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest.

Our employees and competitors thought we were docile. We want to be defiantly disruptive. I don't mean necessarily by launching price wars but by being the best at the basics - having the best customer service, the best on-time performance, the best coffee - in a thoughtful, not a testosterone-laced, way.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

I never drink on duty, she said coldly. Besides somebody might smell my breath. You're working for me now. All my employees are required to get liquored up from time to time. Besides, if you had a good dinner and were to eat a couple of the Chasers in the kitchen cabinet, nobody would smell your breath.

Organizations rarely believe they're to blame when an employee underperforms, but if the organization doesn't provide the opportunity for success, it's their fault when people falter.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

The shift in accountability from employer to employee caused a move from reasonably well-managed, low-cost investment programs to generally poorly managed, high-cost investment programs.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

My ego is my employee – and I, the witness, am its employer.

It's time for companies to stop asking their employees to breathlessly chase ever-higher, ever-more-artificial targets set by ego.

Stress is passed from organization to employee, from employee to employee, and then from employee to customer. Stress never stops at the border of work, either. It bleeds into life. It infects your relationships with your friends, your family, your kids.

Stress is passed from organization to employee, from employee to employee, and then from employee to customer.

Ham-it-up managers like Gene make metaphors come to life and walk corporate hallways like an army of cheerful, highly motivated zombies. These vampires drain their employees of the ability to think for themselves by labeling critical comments as evidence of a bad attitude. They are also likely to withhold controversial information for fear of demotivating people.

I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.