Workplace Dynamics Quotes

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

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.

The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

In my early formative years, back in the territory days, if a guy didn't get along for whatever reason or didn't get over or things didn't work out, or he just wanted to relocate, he had other territories to go to to make, if not the same amount of money, substantially more or less.

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

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

I have worked with different managers in the past and different systems.

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

We're a small office and I don't have any room for nice political people who don't know anything about drugs.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.