Gregory Balestrero

Quotes

• “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.”
• “Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.”
• “Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.”
• “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 poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.”
• “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.”
• “Dr. Cleland was among the first to see project management strategically as well as tactically, at the center of organizational competencies... It's hard to believe, but there was a time when it was new and unfamiliar. Dr. Cleland was a driving force behind the adoption of project management as a professional competency, and is a key contributor to the success of all organizations that use professional project management standards and methodologies today.”

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Key dates

Born

16 July 1947

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Gregory

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Occupation

engineer

Image

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