My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.
From Carol Bartz
I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.
I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.
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