The time for your labor has been granted.
People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.
People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.
In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You give money because you think this would increase motivation. It actually decreases motivation.
We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.
I'm a big believer that if you're happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you're unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there's no way your customers are going to be happy.
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
