Grace Poe Quotes

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

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.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

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.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

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.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

The commander ought to lead every important movement.

I lead my party. He [John Major] follows his.

apolitical movement is always influenced by its leader’s personality.

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

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

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.