Quotes About Engagement

Questions are to sales as breath is to life. If you fail to ask them, you will die. If you ask them incorrectly, your death won't be immediate, but it's inevitable.

The use of a good process that engages people is much more desirable, even if it does not initially achieve all the results.

Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it.

management has no more critical role than to motivate and engage large numbers of people to work together toward a common goal. Defining and explaining what the goal is, sharing a path to achieving it, motivating people to take the journey with you, and assisting them by removing obstacles—those are management's reasons for being. We

Defining and explaining what the goal is, sharing a path to achieving it, motivating people to take the journey with you, and assisting them by removing obstacles—those are management's reasons for being. We must engage the minds of people to support and contribute their ideas to the organization. In my experience, the Toyota Way is the best method for fulfilling this role.

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it.

Actually putting your people first and treating them as if they matter to the organization's success, although easy to talk about and easy to understand, is notoriously difficult to implement.

evidence shows most workplaces filled with distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing employees.

Indirect costs from things such as disengagement, being physically present but not feeling well enough to do one's best, and being distracted by stress are typically estimated to be about five times as large as the direct medical costs, an issue I return to toward the end of this chapter.

We believe in a God who is engaged in our lives, who is not silent, nor absent, nor, as Elijah said of the god of the priests of Baal, is He "[on] a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be [awakened]" (1 Kings 18:27). In this Church, even our young Primary children recite, "We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God." (Articles of Faith 1:9)

Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so that when your character walks out of the donut shop and turns left into the nunnery, there really is a nunnery next door and not a muffler shop.

could become occasionally tyrannical, and that democratic liberty would falter if citizens ceased to be engaged. But he also had faith that a virtuous and engaged citizenry—grounded in small communities—could, through deliberation, achieve a good in common that they could not know alone.

Apple is a team sport.

We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won't.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.

Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Don't hate the media; become the media.

I know you're learning how to follow in your father's footsteps, and that's good, but when was the last time you went outside the castle walls? With someone other than this staff? A good queen knows herself inside and out, and you are too inside your head. The only way you can understand the people you serve is to get to know them. Enjoy their company. Hear their stories. In the process you might figure out what you enjoy, as well, when you're not focused on your studies and your future.

fellow princesses might disagree, but a princess in power can do so much more than just sit and look pretty in a carriage. Look at me. I'm making things happen that no one would expect from a former sleeping beauty. I don't just stay in the castle. I'm out at FTRS, meeting our people and working to help you all gain the power you deserve. Don't you deserve a say in how your kingdom is run?

buns or shoe leathers. Riveting stuff. I can't imagine what the FTRS

like to help people, and I like to get involved, but I don't really want to be the star.

He was listening with rapt attention. "I'm boring you, aren't I? I don't usually tell anyone my life's story." She'd never told anyone particular anecdote, actually.

Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway.