Charlie Bell Quotes

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

Any business or club has to have a hierarchy. Everybody needs to know and understand his role in the overall structure. Bayern Munich is no different.

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

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

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

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

I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.

I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.

All parties have one leader at the top who is the first among equals.

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

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.

Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.

I am fully supportive of the strategy and leadership team at Valeant.