Everything Andrew Berkowitz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Berkowitz: High Performers Will Not Slack Off Under Flexible, High-Trust Policies
“If you have high performers on your team, in no way are they going to do that, because high performers, they want to perform. I mean, they want to take pride in the craft of their work, and they want to do great stuff”
Berkowitz: Tracking hours worked is a meaningless proxy for output
“Hours as a proxy for getting work done is totally meaningless.”
Berkowitz: Founders Should Tell Employees the Same Information as Co-Founders
“A trustful approach is you share all of that with your employees. So they feel like they are partners in the business. I mean, you tell your employees the same thing you would tell your co-founders.”
Berkowitz: Managers should mandate employees share three complaints in 1-on-1s
“In our one-on-ones, I would basically say, you have to complain about three things in this one-on-one, and one of them has to be something about me. So I basically force them. You cannot say nothing.”
Berkowitz: Lack of leadership transparency drives more turnover than honest bad news
“If you are not transparent with your employees and telling them what's really going on, they will write their own stories and you'll, you'll lose far more people who just sort of imagine that things are terrible than just telling the answer.”
Berkowitz: Eliminating mandated hours increases employee willingness to work flexible schedules
“When you stop saying these are the specific hours that you must work, people will give you a lot more flexibility in terms of what they are willing to work on.”
Berkowitz: Employers should evaluate multi-year career productivity over vacation frequency
“If you are trying to hire really great people, and I mean, you should be trying to hire the best people, you should be thinking about the long game. It's not how much vacation somebody took this week, or this month, or this year, it's how productive are they o…”
Berkowitz: Sharing Context Makes Employees More Business Literate and Benefits Startups
“You also have to share the context. You know, it's a lot of employees are not going to have the business context that you do, but being forced to share that context actually creates much more business literate employees, which is going to be better for your co…”
Berkowitz: Structuring company policies around worst-case employees punishes the entire workforce
“When you build your company policies around the lowest common denominator, You end up punishing everybody, and you end up ultimately punishing your company.”
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