organizational-behavior

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs.

The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave.

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' _ Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Success is mainly the result of hard work.

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you__e got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you__e got a herd.

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell__ direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, __ had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, __here__ no way, who__ gonna buy a computer over the phone? They__e complicated.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.