Quotes About Engagement

Hiring and onboarding approaches, sales and marketing processes, budgeting practices, incentive structures, performance evaluation and management systems, and every other organizational system, structure, and process can be conceived and deployed in inward-mindset or outward-mindset ways. Organizations that are serious about operating with an outward mindset turn these systems and processes outward to invite and reinforce outward-mindset working.

The question for you as the leader is whether you are going to create an environment that is as enjoyable for your people as it is for you—a place that they are as excited about and devoted to as you are. The best leaders are those whom people want to follow.

With Buber's observations in mind, we can see that both of these leaders are connected with others rather than split from them. It's just that one of them—the Isolated leader—is together with others as with objects, while the Together Leader is together with others as with people.

The question for you as the leader is whether you are going to create an environment that is as enjoyable for your people as it is for you—a place that they are as excited about and devoted to as you are. The best leaders are those whom people want to follow. We have a different word for people whom others follow only because of force or need. We call them tyrants.

There's a particular self-betrayal that almost everyone engages in at work to one degree or another, a self-betrayal concerning the very purpose of what we were hired to do—to focus on helping the organization and its people to achieve results. The key to solving most of the people problems that afflict organizations is in discovering how we can solve this central workplace self-betrayal.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence.

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.

You've got to practice meditation when you walk, stand, lie down, sit, and work, while washing your hands, washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, drinking tea, talking to friends, or whatever you are doing: "While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes.

We are not passive. To be passive means to be pulled, pushed, and swayed by circumstances or the people around us.

We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.

The Buddha told him, When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

mindfulness is not something that is only done in a meditation hall; it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden, when we are on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes.