Quotes About Communication

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

I enjoy the company of overseas people. It's always good learning.

I was overwhelmed meeting him. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know whether to call him 'Coach Russell,' 'Bill,' or 'Mr. Russell.'

As a person I'm often overwhelmed by emotions, so I write them down.

When communication happens only over the hierarchy lines, that's a priori evidence that the managers are trying to hold on to all control. This is not only inefficient but an insult to the people underneath.

Team jell takes time, and, during much of that time, the composition of the team can't be changing. If you need to use a reactive strategy of contract labor, your team will probably never jell. In fact, the workforce you manage almost certainly won't be a team at all.

The project workers are the ones most familiar with the territory of the project. If a given direction doesn't make sense to them, it doesn't make any sense at all.

Significant organizational learning can't happen in isolation. It always involves the joint participation of a set of middle managers. This requires that they actually talk to each other and listen to each other, rather than just taking turns talking to and listening to a common boss.

The meeting wasn't really necessary to convey status; there are many less wasteful ways to do that. The need that was being served was not the boss's need for information, but for reassurance.

More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it's okay sometimes not to answer their phones, and they must learn that their time–not just the quantity but its quality–is important.

It's not uncommon to see real teams as a phenomenon of only the bottom level of the hierarchy.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Hey babyI only got one thing to say to you, you know what that is? I don't like the tone of your voice!

The beads of his words strung with too much silence between them.

interviewing that people said he could make a stump confess to saying "timber.

They'd already shouted to each other the facts, but they hadn't had time to press the hurt spots.

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Whether or not the public should be expected to understand is not the critical point. Obviously much of the complexity of law will try the public's patience, even if the law is expressed plainly. The real problem is that even other lawyers cannot fathom what their colleagues are writing.

If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.