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Some organizations worry that fostering innovation might jeopardize safety by introducing change, which many see as a source of risk. Our results, however, highlight the significance of line ownership: in our experience, one of the most effective bulwarks against accidents is the use of “near miss” programs, which encourage employees to identify hazardous situations and propose solutions before safety is jeopardized. Engaging employees in the … [ Read more ]
— Randy Lim, Jean-Benoît Grégoire Rousseau, and Brooke WeddleAuthors: Brooke Weddle, Jean-Benoît Grégoire Rousseau, Randy Lim | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Operations
You can’t really be disciplined in what you do unless you are humble and open-minded. Humility breeds open-mindedness.
— Herb KelleherAuthor: Herb Kelleher | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Personal Development
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
— Herb KelleherAuthor: Herb Kelleher | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
A Russian roulette equation — usually win, occasionally die — may make financial sense for someone who gets a piece of a company’s upside but does not share in its downside. But that strategy would be madness for Berkshire. Rational people don’t risk what they have and need for what they don’t have and don’t need.
— Warren BuffettAuthor: Warren Buffett | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Risk Management
Hay que estar más preocupado por los hombres que tienen que hacer las cosas, que por las cosas que tienen que hacer los hombres. English translation: You have to be more concerned about the men who have to do things, than about the things that men have to do.
— Carlos LlanoAuthor: Carlos Llano | Subject: Management
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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The EconomistAs for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon WarshawskyMoney never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. ReillyIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore RooseveltThe uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts