Quotes About Engagement

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Put up with people around,they serve as your background.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms

The world is full of people who care but never quite care enough.

I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-

guessed that's why he'd come to this mountain, to play with me, because he didn't seem to have much else to do with his life.

Simply put, there is no substitute for meeting and listening to dissatisfied customers directly.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.

Experiences that don't involve touching, seeing, or feeling actual results, such as being presented with an abstract sheet of numbers, are shown to be non-impactful and easily forgotten.

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

intelligence is evaluated by: doing... applying... acting... observing... understanding...thinking... using...etc.?

One of the best ways to inspire another person to desirable action is to relate a true story that appeals to his emotions.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to- that is what they must do.

MBWA (management by walking around) is hardly ever effective. The reason is that someone in management, walking around, has little idea about what questions to ask, and usually does not pause long enough at any spot to get the right answer.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

What good comes of making a suggestion to foreman? He just smiles and walks away.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.

o be entirely honest, I know of nothing quite so boring as Christianity without Christ.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

You have the greatest passion for your book so you need to show that passion and create an email list and different ways to connect with your readers.

Much of publishing (and any business) is a matter of making the right connection with the right person at the right time at the right place. You can't make that connection working alone in your office at your computer or curled up with your legal pad writing your story.

Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.