Quotes About Engagement

As measured by employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS). This is a significant finding, as research has shown that "companies with highly engaged workers grew revenues two and a half times as much as those with low engagement levels. And [publicly traded] stocks of companies with a high-trust work environment outperformed market indexes by a factor of three from 1997 through 2011." DevOps Helps

I'm about to ask what he means by an "Allspaw," when he just waves my question away.

We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just do!

we are not talking to one another about what changes we're planning or implementing. This is not acceptable.

Code deployment lead time, code deployment frequency, and time to resolve problems are predictive of software delivery, operational performance, and organizational performance, and they correlate with burnout, employee engagement, and so much more.

In high-performing organizations, everyone within the team shares a common goal—quality, availability, and security aren't the responsibility of individual departments but are a part of everyone's job, every day.

The Second Ideal is Focus, Flow, and Joy.

We have even managed to turn into a Twitter trending topic. All

I need you to say no! We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just

but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable. I have absolutely no interest in becoming one of the vps who just give each other PowerPoints all day long.

The Joke is not a collection of words; it's the scene that appears in the listener's mind as a result of those words

Localizing your comedy always multiplies its humor content because the audience members feel like they're sharing the stage with you.

An audience is tremendously important in humor because it becomes an active participant in the performance. There is no humor until audience members get involved.

If you ignore them, they won't laugh.

Your sales pitch should present the goal and build to the interesting complication. They'll buy that.

Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense struggle, affirm the absence of ny intended violence against them, seek to undermine the reliability, and try to induce them to be helpful to the defenders.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.

I think he and the Princess are engaged in an unofficial game of Who Can Show They're More Important by Arriving Last, not that either of them would admit it.

So much for a nice quiet evening with a good book.

Now she just had to explain everything—well, most things—to the men, and then be off.

Then we can discuss matters—" And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

Well then. You better make sure your wife can play too. That's my advice to you, Matthew Flanagan