Anne Bishop Quotes

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.

If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.

Treat your employees like customers.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

What really makes your business is your workers - their commitment, their knowledge, how you train them, how you treat them. They have to make the entity a winning entity.

Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.

For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.

Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's value comes from the people who walk out the door every night, who have to decide each morning whether to walk back in. One of the simplest things you can do as a leader is honor their choice and appreciate their work.

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.