Quotes About Subordinates

#1. Theoretically, great opportunities lay ahead of a young man of energy in that day and place, but Carl Miller had been incapable of establishing either with his superiors or his subordinates the reputation for approximate immutability which is essential to success in a hierarchic industry.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.

Scribendi

#3. Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

Denis Waitley

#4. The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.

Stephen Covey

#5. Maybe that's what your machine calls infection - all the new information in my blood. Chatter. Tastes of other individuals. Peers. Superiors. Subordinates.

Greg Bear

#6. If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

Teresa Amabile

#7. Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#9. Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

H. Beam Piper

#11. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Peter Drucker

#12. Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Arleigh Burke

#13. If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

Donald T. Phillips

#14. There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

George S. Patton

#15. Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen E. Schrempp

#17. Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.

Peter Drucker

#18. Authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just.

Jonathan Haidt

#19. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

#20. If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Sun Tzu

#21. I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#22. He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

William Feather

#23. Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Jerry Goldsmith

#24. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

Idries Shah

#25. A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

John Leo

#26. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

John Brunner

#27. I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Chiang Kai-shek

#28. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Dee Hock

#29. Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#30. I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Peter Drucker

#31. Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

Donald T. Phillips

#32. No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Peter Drucker

#33. Tell me what to do, not how to do it.' Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander's intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.

Nathaniel Fick

#34. A sure indication of a successful leader is the collective and consistent testimony of subordinates who are grateful for what they learned and how they grew while they worked under that leader.

Richard Blackaby

#35. A business is an army;
you are the general,
and your subordinates are your troops.
Victory is achieving your goals.
Great victory is surpassing your goals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#36. What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

Sam Manekshaw

#37. Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#38. Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Peter F. Drucker

#39. No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

J. Lawton Collins

#40. There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Aristotle.

#41. Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

Stanley Bing

#42. When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.

Stephen Covey

#43. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Milan Kundera

#44. Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

Henry A. Kissinger

#45. Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Carmine Gallo

#46. The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Hyman Rickover

#47. If I'm the boss / parent, why can't I just tell my subordinates / children what to do?

Douglas Stone

#48. A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth.

Miguel El Portugues

#49. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.

Charles Duhigg

#50. To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder ... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Norman Mailer

#51. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#52. Trees die from the top. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Peter Drucker

#53. I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

Bo Gritz

#54. Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

Nabeshima Naoshige

#55. No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

Sydney J. Harris

#56. My subordinates followed my orders.

Jorge Rafael Videla

#57. The way we think toward our jobs determines how our subordinates think toward their jobs.

David J. Schwartz

#58. Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Zhuge Liang

#59. Turning the workplace into a playing field can turn our subordinates into "athletes" dedicated to performing at the limit of their capabilities - the key to making our team consistent winners.

Andrew S. Grove

#60. The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Machado De Assis

#61. Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

Daniel Goleman

#62. Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

Henry Beston

#63. Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Epictetus

#64. A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Peter Drucker

#65. Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

#66. Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Simon Sinek

#67. You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

Lloyd Blankfein

#68. Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

Len Smith

#69. If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.

Honeya

#70. There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Mahatma Gandhi