Ed Skrein Quotes

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

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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

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

The fish rots from the head.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

The culture or environment of a company starts from the top. The leadership. The leadership of a company sends a message to its employees of what is tolerated and what is not.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

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.

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

For a company the size of ECW, there wasn't room for multiple over-the-top personalities.