What are the best John Stankey and other ATT leadership quotes to employees? I remember something about spreading peanut butter evenly and too many mouths to feed. Trying to recall others for an inspirational book I am writing.
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Fed up with the questions, Stankey called in senior management and reamed them out, yelling: “I am sick of hearing this! I know more about television than any of you! Stop questioning me,”
From Randall around 2008 or 2009 time frame................
"Comcast is not a competitor of ours"
You will have to relinquish your profit and book rights to T
"If you wake up in the morning and you aren't excited to come to work you should go work somewhere else."
"Just because you worked here another year doesn't mean you deserve a raise"
"We have too many mouths to feed around here"
"No job is safe"
HBO, which was founded in 1972, has “gone through reinvention over its years, and this is just the next chapter of reinvention,” Stankey added.
I doubt HBO employees will consider what happened a "reinvention". It is more like, "Stankey, WTF, hightail back to your bunker mansion and and STFU!"
"I can't believe I get paid to watch movies."
"Golden Boy is modeled after me."
my ex 2nd level said it's my way or the highway.he was fired.
Some were used to a construct of the longer i serve or the longer I’m here the more benefits I accrue…now it’s a construct of the more you contribute, the more interesting your experience is going to be with the company.
Peanut Butter is from Jeff McLovin.
"If you don't like change you should consider working at a dry cleaners."
How about some old timers: If you want loyalty, get a dog. Duane Ackerman, Chairman, Bellsouth
“We build at scale” oh ok, that sounds good - I guess it might matter WHAT you build - who gives a truck if it scales but face plants with customers
1+1=3 pre takeover speech to DTV engineering offsite referring to combined potential of DTV and T. Within 12 months destroyed that company and thousands of careers. And ended with 1+1=0.1. Id--t
If you don’t believe in out sourcing then you should probably go get a job at jiffy lube
If you hold him close enough, you can hear the ocean and this employee should go far. The sooner he starts, the better.
My feedback for Stanley.
Too many mouths to feed. Our benefits are too rich.
Stankey quote from a couple of years ago… if I could run the company without 1 employee, I would.
“I’d like to wish you all the warmest and happiest Holidays, and remind you that if you’re unhappy with all of the change and reduction of benefits, none of that is stopping anytime soon, and you should probably leave”
woke is broke
I stank, therefore I am
The next year of your life will be as painful as childbirth
Dear HBO Employees, my wife hates it when I make this comparison but your jobs will become like child birth
Calcification
no safe place and too many mouths to feed.
No one is safe.
Content is king.
Stinky on CNBC just a few days before the TW spin off announced: T's dividend is safe and stable.
Stinky on CNBC after the TW spin off announcement: T's dividend will be brought "in-line" after the TW spin-off closes.
Ratty and Stinky then placed at the top of CEO Wall of Shame.