Reid Hoffman Quotes About Employees

Quotes about: Employees

• A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Littles, Realistic

  "Reid Hoffman: How To Manage Talent In The Networked Age". Interview with Josh Bersin, www.forbes.com. August 30, 2014.

• There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."

  Reid Hoffman

  Two, People, Green

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, Long, Sailing

  Source: bigthink.com

• If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to communicate well with your employees in order to help them understand why it is you're doing, and how. Second is to make sure that the employees who are part of the go forward, understand kind of what happened and are not like the ground doesn't keep moving. It's like, okay, we did that, we're moving forward, here we go. And then for the employees that you unfortunately have to let go, try to provide as much support for them as possible.

  Reid Hoffman

  Letting Go, Moving, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

• One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, People, Empowerment

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

  Reid Hoffman

  Helping, Creation, Employers

  "Reid Hoffman: How To Manage Talent In The Networked Age". Interview with Josh Bersin, www.forbes.com. August 30, 2014.

• ...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Alliances, Way

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.13, Harvard Business Review Press

• The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

  Reid Hoffman

  Careers, Alliances, Helping

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.124, Harvard Business Review Press

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