Engaging Quotations

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Comment by Jacquie Nagy on June 4, 2009 at 9:07am

I meet a lot of people that express a desire to make a difference but then sabotage themselves before they even get started with language like "Oh, well. That's the way it is..." or "Who am I to be the one to...." or my least favourite response that so many people use these days..."Whatever".

Being a past employee of The Body Shop in Winnipeg, I was fortunate to have met Anita Roddick personally. When I close my eyes and think deeply I can recreate the body sensations I felt when we hugged, I can see her sitting next to me in the conference room at the old Birchwood Hotel and I can hear her voice as she told me a story about swimming with her grandchildren.

Anita Roddick was an activist, role model of excellence and savvy business woman.. The following bedroom quote by Anita - is equally effective in the boardroom...

“If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” --- Anita Roddick, founder The Body Shop

Comment by Larry Underwood on May 16, 2009 at 6:51am

"Corporate America has nothing to fear but the culture of fear Corporate America has created."---Larry Underwood, author of "Life Under the Corporate Microscope" (Everything that's been said by gurus like Peter Drucker have probably been mentioned by this time.) Bye.

Comment by Ana-Maria Calin on April 7, 2009 at 4:56pm

Hi! As a noob, i really can't exactly say who first used this extremly fun, yet cruel analogy (internet sources tell me it's Ken Schwaber who first used it) to explain the difference between involvement and engagement:

Take the ordinary english breakfast as an example: ham and eggs. You'll see the chicken is involved but the pig... the pig is engaged.

Couldnt stop laughing! Of course, the reality doesent neccesarely look like this. The envolved don't have to actully sacrifice themselves, in any way, on the contrary!

When using this analogy, the subject was project management:
Engaged is the equivalent of accountable and responsible
Involved is the equivalent of consults and informed

LOL, so to say
Ana

Comment by Robert Morris on March 18, 2009 at 10:33am

Please keep sharing quotations and (hopefully) your comments...and thank you so much for doing so!

Here are a few quotations cited in Deborah Micek and Warren Whitlock's Twitter Revolution that I had not seen previously:

"If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein

Comment: Organizations in which the most people are positively and constructively engaged generate lots of bad ideas to get a few good ideas and then perhaps (as Steve Jobs describes it ) one "insanely great idea."

"Eventually everything connects." Charles Eames

Comment: I agree and, inevitably, what happens in organizations in which very few people arepositively and constructively engaged, the connection is with deterioration and failure.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

Comment: This supports Gary Halbert's observation, "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

Best regards,

Bob Morris
Dallas, Texas

Comment by Howard Krais on January 23, 2009 at 8:16am

“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
Woody Allen

Comment by Debbie Adams on January 15, 2009 at 3:16pm

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie

Comment by Andrea Montuschi on January 6, 2009 at 4:59am

I use quotes very sparingly, as Europeans are not as passionate about quotes as Americans.
For this reason, whenever I use quotes I make sure I finish with this one by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Comment by Paul Lush on January 5, 2009 at 11:23am

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" - Walt Disney
A great thought for a new year!!

Comment by Phil Gerbyshak on January 4, 2009 at 1:26pm

The quote that I keep in my mind whenever I think about employee engagement is a simple one:

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

I've seen it attributed to many, most recently Dr. John Maxwell, and I completely agree with it. If you connect with someone's heart, their actions will follow suit. If you don't connect with their heart, you might get compliance, but you'll never get true commitment.

Comment by John Kmiec on January 1, 2009 at 11:26pm

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Abraham Lincoln

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