It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Interpretation
Effective communication and honesty are essential in leadership.
In this quote, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. emphasizes the importance of open and truthful communication within an organization. He argues that leaders must treat their team members as equals, sharing all relevant information, rather than withholding it, to foster trust and collaboration.
In practice
During a team meeting to emphasize the importance of transparency in our project updates.
Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.
The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.
I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.
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