Employee Potential Quotes

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

We underestimate our people. Given a challenge, most of our people will do it, especially the youngsters who take to technology like duck to water.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

No company can say our country is great because of our diversity. They can say it but has nothing to do with it, literally nothing to do with it, how diverse you are. "Well, it just means that we don't discriminate. It means that we value all people." Fine and dandy. But unless your company makes something or has a service and you have an atmosphere where people working for you can become the best they can be, it doesn't matter what your workforce looks like, dummkopf.