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If the employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.
Aviation Week and Space Technology (1990)
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
The Nation's Business (1991)
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.
Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (1982)
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.
Intellectual Capital (1997)
Companies... have a hard time distinguishing between the cost of paying people and the value of investing in them.
Intellectual Capital (1997)
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