Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.