Gwynne Shotwell Quotes

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

We are a bottom-up culture, and we need a communications platform that can facilitate that.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

I try to create a very casual working place, where everybody - down to production assistants - can throw out ideas and not feel intimidated. When it becomes a collaborative environment, it becomes a small family, and everybody becomes invested.

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

At a well-run company, good ideas are embraced no matter where they come from.

It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.