When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company’s situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
I have always encouraged open and frank discussion among embassy employees and the expression of dissenting views, because this is the best way to maintain morale among embassy personnel and to arrive at sensible decisions which are in the best interests of the United States.
Producers are now employees, not creators.
I have people say, ‘I’ll come to work for you for free,’ and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
Human-resources departments in corporations across the country are pervaded by the view that the corporation’s white-male employees are incapable of fairly judging females and underrepresented minorities without large dollops of diversity training.
Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers – and that steadily builds wealth.
Our operations in China are materially similar to our U.S. peers who also operate and have employees there.
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities – without outside interference.
Most of us don’t think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting ‘comedic’ accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.
At my company, we have 300 employees spread across offices all over the world, and I send them all a voicemail each morning with a message from me about why our work is important and a reminder about one of our values. I call myself our company’s ‘chief spiritual officer.’
Increase your company’s average talent with each hire – founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse.
When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.
When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don’t even do that.
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.
I’m told by our internal surveys that we take of customers – by customers themselves directly and by a very large group of our employees – that there’s a new spirit at United.
I find it a very encouraging sign for a society if employers are bringing online education to their companies, helping employees gain more knowledge.
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren’t acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
We greatly value the contributions of all of our employees.
Entrepreneurship is baked into the DNA of the Kansas Third District, and I’m proud to work with my colleagues in both parties to make sure our local businesses have the tools they need to take care of their employees, grow their companies, and contribute to our economy.
Sequestration will make it extremely challenging – and in many cases impossible – for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
There’s a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.
We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
We never worked in Russia. We never worked for Russia. I want to be careful, but I don’t think we have any Russian employees in our company whatsoever. We just don’t have business in Russia. We have no involvement with Russia, never have done.
Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
It’s time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don’t have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
I love my business. I love my employees.
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
You can get a good handle on a company’s culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, ‘We value our employees’ but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.
I’ve learned that it’s important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to empower them. Whether you’re a first-line supervisor or the head of an entire agency, you should be asking career staffers, ‘What do you think?’
I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I’m out there, and it makes a huge difference.
I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 – not $10,000 – that he would not take the offer.
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
I love my employees and show them through my actions.
An ‘exchange’ would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options – just like federal employees and Congress do right now – and allow their employer to help pay for it.
From the employees’ standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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.
You really have to understand this isn’t a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations – you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that’s really what’s going to bring you success.
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
I don’t care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody’s innovations into our ecosystem together.
