Craig Ferguson Quotes

We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

We want to move along and make sure, both internally and externally, that people realize how the company is being run, and it's being run by a group of people now, not just me.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

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

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.