Personnel Development Quotes

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

There is value in finding a combination of internal people, stretching them and seeing their potential, then marrying that with someone from the outside.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

You'd like to transition with continuity, have people in your own organization rise up and continue forward, whether in coaching or personnel or players.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.