Maynard Webb Quotes

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don't have a given right to my job; I need to prove my value in my role every single day.

You have to earn your job every day.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

We have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

It was a hard decision to leave Norwich, and you have to take into account a lot of things - could I make the step up? Do I want to have another season of really showing what I can do?

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

The difference in being a good soldier and actor is that in the Air Force, you see results, and our worth is defined by numbers. As an actor, your results are based on other people's opinions.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.