Quotes About Engagement

Nada como uma cidade pequena para deixar as pessoas curiosas.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

If you want a company that cares, you need people who care, and they need to be motivated by more than money.

The CEOs of our small giants had all faced the same issue. One way or another, they had to keep their best people engaged and challenged or run the risk of losing them. In most cases, the answer had been a kind of controlled growth that preserved the company's culture while creating new opportunities for employees.

businesses. They had new lives that they were fully engaged in and excited about. For some people, there was a fifth element:         5) The companies they'd created were going on without them and doing better than ever, and they could take pride in the way they'd handled one of the most difficult tasks faced by any CEO: succession.

Pagano put out a suggestion box to capture them and took care to respond to each one. He also began writing monthly letters to employees' families, which he sent to their homes, and invited family members to come in to view new products. "We truly wanted to involve everyone in the business," he said.

buyout, a gift to your children, a liquidation of assets, or any of the other possible outcomes. Stage four is the transition. It begins with the completion of the deal and ends when you're fully engaged in whatever comes next. Until you've moved on—not just physically but psychologically—to a new venture, a new career, a redefined role, or even retirement, your exit isn't complete.

You can NOT be a leader unless you like people! You've got to spend time with them, so you know them. You've got to be interested in who they are, what they do away from the job, and how they think.

La vie deviendra un jeu, ou plutôt une variété de jeux, et non plus un jeu sans enjeu.

La principale différence entre le travail et les loisirs est la suivante : au boulot, au moins, l'avachissement et l'aliénation sont rémunérés.

When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.

Sitting in the pews wringing our hands about decay in the world is not being salt. Neither is decrying the evil without offering positive alternatives.

What I'm calling for is a radically different way of thinking about our world. Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. And instead of just hanging around the fringes of our culture, we need to be right smack dab in the middle of it.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

The single greatest people skill is a highly-developed and authentic interest in the other person.

There is a saying in sales: Facts tell, but stories sell. This is easy to remember because it rhymes, but it's not entirely true. Stories don't necessarily sell. What they do is connect.

Directors need to be happy constructively questioning and criticizing each other,

I mean...um... they are Web 2.0 savvy consumers whose engagement with their own personal brands make them willing to join the conversation in an interactive way that leverages social media to become engaged customers for life. You know, that kind of thing. Well, whatever the hell they are, they got money and we want it! Remember, engaging content is how you engage their engagement.

The point is this: our brands are very important to us marketers and very unimportant to most consumers. Please read that again.

There is a lot to life beyond the computer screen. There is food and music and art and friendship and talking and laughing and flowers and sports and, as you say, an argument down at the pub. To say that the internet changed everything is simply an alarming assertion for an intelligent person to make. You are spending way too much time in front of a computer screen.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

If people are following, you're leading. Otherwise you aren't." – Bob Lewis

What remains constant in the midst all the innovation and change is that marketers will always find a way to be where their consumers are.