Unproductive Workplace Quotes

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

The Civil Service rewards those who do no more than sit at their desks and say no.

I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn't have a clue what they were doing.

Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have.

If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.