Quotes About Engagement

In a company everyone is part of the system, and so feedback is the lifeblood of the organization, the exchange of information that lets people know if the job they are doing is going well or needs to be fine-tuned, upgraded, or redirected entirely. Without feedback people are in the dark; they have no idea how they stand with their boss, with their peers, or in terms of what is expected of them, and any problems will only get worse as time passes.

The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.

Situações que não exigem uma constante focagem na tarefa – em particular quanto às tarefas aborrecidas ou rotineiras – deixam a mente livre para vaguear. (…) Dado que o sonhar acordado compete pela energia neuronal com o foco em tarefas e a perceção sensorial, não admira que, quando sonhamos acordados, cometamos mais erros em tudo aquilo que exija mais da nossa atenção focada.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices," he told me. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.

Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but the latter will get you through the night.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.

May we generally be happy, generally be witty, generally be honest, but above all always be interesting.

knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel

However many people you know now, you will always need to know more. You want to connect with as many people as possible to increase your chances of meeting the right people who will change your personal and professional life.

emergent relatedness assumes that the infant from the moment of birth is deeply social in the sense of being designed to engage in and find uniquely salient interactions with other humans.

When little islands of presence cut into our moments of absence, we start to taste the difference in pleasure that presence brings us. When practice mixes with pleasure, we are not far from being definitively lost to the cause of automatism.

His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let's try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."

Facebook needs three buttons, "Like", "Dislike" and "Stop being stupid."

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Also it lights up your big dumb face.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

When people talk, listen completely.