Our new London office opens on 4th July 2016 and we just ran a poll with our staff to choose our favourite inspirational quotes on company culture, leadership and employee engagement. Here's how we got on.
2. Our new office in London, UK opens
on 4th July and we wanted some
great quotes on Company Culture to
inspire us as we work.
Our friends at Brightspot Strategy are
helping us to make sure the new
office is a great place to work. They
taught us how much we need to
involve our people in the design of
the workplace.
So we held an all-staff vote to help us
choose which quotes we would use.
Here are the results
3. When we open on 4th July
2016 they’ll look a bit like
this….
6. “You can build a much more
wonderful company on love than
you can on fear.”
Kip Tindell
Co-Founder, The Container Store
1
7. “If you are lucky enough to be
someone’s employer, then you
have a moral obligation to make
sure people do look forward to
coming to work in the morning.”
Howard Schultz
CEO, Starbucks
2
8. “Treat employees like they make
a difference and they will.”
Jim Goodnight
CEO, SAS
3
9. “No company, small or large, can
win over the long run without
energised employees who
believe in the mission and
understand how to achieve it.”
Jack Welch
Former CEO, General Electric
4
10. “Our belief is that if you get the
culture right, most of the other stuff,
like great customer service or building
a great long-term brand, or
empowering passionate employees
and customers will happen on it's
own.”
Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos
5
11. “To win in the marketplace you
must first win in the workplace.”
Doug Conant,
CEO, Campbell’s Soup
6
12. “The only way to build great culture is not
only through words that are written on
the wall, but in your actions. You have to
make every one of those people
understand that you care more about
them, than you want them to care about
you. It is the only way.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
CEO, Vayner
7
13. “The way management treats
their associates is exactly how
the associates will treat the
customers.”
Sam M Walton
Founder, Wal-Mart
8
14. “Some people see innovation as
change, but we have never really
seen it like that. It’s making
things better.”
Tim Cook
CEO, Apple
9
15. “Excitement in what we do really
drives so many different areas
here.”
Cliff Pemble
President + COO, Garmin
10
16. “We will never - and I mean
never - turn our backs on our
employees.”
Howard Schultz
CEO, Starbucks
11
17. “I learned from my mother that if
you have the chance to speak,
you should speak. If you have an
opinion you should make it be
known.”
Ursula Burns
Chairwoman & CEO, Xerox Corporation
12
18. “Leadership stems from
individuality that is honestly and
sometimes imperfectly
expressed… Leaders should strive
for authenticity over perfection.”
Sheryl Sandberg
COO, Facebook
13
19. “Of all the things I’ve done, the
most vital is coordinating those
who work with me and aiming
their efforts at a certain goal.”
Walt Disney
14