John Hoover - Time Quotes

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The organizational money chart enables people to isolate because they can always point upward when someone asks, Who's in charge?... over time, the motivation to do well dwindles.

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Whether you like it or not, any time two or more people get together to do anything, a culture emerges.

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Your Idiot Boss needs to feel that someone is on his side, in his corner, and has his back. Find times to support your Idiot Boss, especially in his times of uncertainty and doubt.

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Even the most mechanical organizations can design and deploy a people-centered culture, even if it happens one department at a time and takes a flying squirrel to champion the change.

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Efficiency, productivity, and performance should always be priorities, through good times and bad.

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People in organizations get ticked and become increasingly cynical every time a new change initiative, continuous process improvement, leadership development program, customer service seminar, internal and/or external communication initiative is brought in; and nothing improves.

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If escaping your paranoid boss is not... easy... Keep your activities in plain site... copy your Paranoid Boss on everything... Spend more time with him... Share the knowledge... Share secrets... some of your inner thoughts, within reason...

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Despite our most innocent and best intentions as leaders, the havoc we often wreak can nevertheless be enormous in terms of wasted time, money, and resources, and, more important, in alienation and disenfranchisement of the most valuable blessing of all: our people.

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Going through channels means seeking permission from those above you.... Imagine how much... distortion there will be if the information is screened each time based on each person's political agenda.

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Good Bosses are aware that sharing information in a thorough, timely manner makes people feel included, respected, and acknowledged for their ability to contribute.... And they are receptive to feedback.... all of the time. It is so remarkably easy that bosses who don't should undergo psychiatric examination and electroshock therapy if necessary.

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Many executives, us included, have benefited from upswings in the market, unexpected shifts in customer demands (in our favor), fortuitous timing, and luck of the draw. Of course, we called it brilliant executive leadership at the time.

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Invite you Buddy Boss to everything.... Share information openly... Request meetings... Beware of the confessional.... Your Buddy Boss will devote endless hours to hearing your confessions and making hers to you... a potential disconnect from getting any appreciable work done.... Set time limits.... Getting along with her... requires ignoring everything you're being paid to do... Dedicated workers get hit the hardest because they must work nights and weekends to do the things they would have done... With luck, you might be transferred to an Idiot Boss.

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