Dennis Bakke Quotes & Sayings

A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile. — Dennis Bakke

When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential. — Dennis Bakke

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise. — Dennis Bakke

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children. — Dennis Bakke

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions. — Dennis Bakke

Asking for advice is an act of humility ... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship. — Dennis Bakke

the fact that he couldn't put the feeling into words didn't make it go away. — Dennis Bakke

when higher-ups could be bothered to hand down answers, they often didn't understand the situation well enough to make a good call. — Dennis Bakke