Most of the people reading this are probably fans of The Office on NBC. Probably not that many of you have seen the original BBC version, created by the extremely funny Ricky Gervais.
From the end of the first episode, office manager David Brent (Gervais) talks about his management philosophy:
“What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. (long pause) Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!”
And, for some additional fun, David Brent's dance-off:
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