Gregory Balestrero
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Gregory Balestrero is an American industrial engineer, and current President and CEO of the Project Management Institute.
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- This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Integrated Manufacturing (1990). Manufacturing Review v.3 no.1-3 1990. p.131.
- Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.
- NACE International (1990). Materials Performance. p. 104.
- Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.
- Graduating Engineer. v.12 1990/1991 McGraw-Hill, 1990. p.14.
- Consequently, American businesses must meet the challenge of poorly- educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.
- InTech: Volume 37 Instrument Society of America. p.17
- The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of oorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.
- Public power: Volume 48. American Public Power Association. p.9
- Great leaders recognize that companies must innovate to remain competitive, and they nurture environments that encourage creative thinking. Innovation is rarely accidental — it takes an organizational commitment that starts at the executive level. The idea is not enough. As Thomas Edison said, innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Too often companies forget the ‘perspiration’ or execution part of the equation.
- "America the Innovator The New Rules for Global Market Growth" By Karen A. Edelman. Forbes : A Special Advertising Section. Accessed 3 Dec 2008.