1. “To win in the marketplace you must first win
in the workplace.” - Doug Conant, CEO of
Campbell’s Soup
2. “When people are financially invested, they
want a return. When people are emotionally
invested, they want to contribute.” - Simon Sinek
3. “Your number one customers are your people.
Look after employees first and then customers
last.” – Ian Hutchinson, author of People Glue
4. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence
then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
5. “Business and human endeavors are systems…
we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts
of the system. And wonder why our deepest
problems never get solved.” - Peter Senge, author
of The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the
Learning Organization
6. “A group of people get together and exist as
an institution we call a company so they are able
to accomplish something collectively that they
could not accomplish separately – they make a
contribution to society, a phrase which sounds
trite but is fundamental.” – David Packard, late co-
founder of Hewlett-Packard
7. “Employees who believe that management is
concerned about them as a whole person – not
just an employee – are more productive, more
satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean
satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.” -
Anne M. Mulcahy
8. “On what high-performing companies should be
striving to create: A great place for great people
to do great work.” - Marilyn Carlson, former CEO of
Carlson Companies
9. “There are only three measurements that tell
you nearly everything you need to know about
your organization’s overall performance: employee
engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash
flow. It goes without saying that no company,
small or large, can win over the long run without
energized employees who believe in the mission
and understand how to achieve it.” – Jack Welch,
former CEO of GE
10. “This is the only country in the world where
today’s employee is tomorrow’s employer.” -
Marco Rubio
11. “The way your employees feel is the way your
customers will feel. And if your employees don’t
feel valued, neither will your customers.” - Sybil F.
Stershic, Taking Care of the People Who Matter
Most: A Guide to Employee-Customer Care.
12. “Culture is about performance, and making
people feel good about how they contribute to the
whole.” - Tracy Streckenbach interview, Clear Goals
Matter More than Mission , The New York Times
13. “People want to know they matter and they
want to be treated as people. That’s the new
talent contract.” - Pamela Stroko in Tanveer
Naseer’s blog post How Leaders are Creating
Engagement in Today’s Workplaces
14. “Employee engagement is the art and science
of engaging people in authentic and recognized
connections to strategy, roles, performance,
organization, community, relationship, customers,
development, energy, and happiness to leverage,
sustain, and transform work into results.” - David
Zinger, Let’s Co-Create an Employee Engagement
Charter, The Employee Engagement Network
15. “Employees engage with employers and
brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of
respect.” - Meghan M. Biro, Your Employees are
Engaged … REALLY? , Forbes
16. “Connect the dots between individual roles
and the goals of the organization. When people
see that connection, they get a lot of energy out
of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and
meaning in their job.” - Ken Blanchard and Scott
Blanchard, Do People Really Know What You Expect
from Them? , Fast Company
17. “Engaged employees stay for what they give
(they like their work); disengaged employees stay
for what they get (favorable job conditions,
growth opportunities, job security).” - Blessing
White’s The State of Employee Engagement 2008
18. “TURNED ON people figure out how to beat
the competition, TURNED OFF people only
complain about being beaten by the competition.”
– Ben Simonton, author of Leading People To Be
Highly Motivated And Committed
19. “Always treat your employees exactly as you
want them to treat your best customers.” -
Stephen R. Covey
20. “It’s sad, really, how a negative workplace
can impact our lives and the way we feel about
ourselves. The situation is reaching pandemic
heights – most people go to work at jobs they
dislike, supervised by people who don’t care
about them, and directed by senior leaders who
are often clueless about where to take the
company.” - Leigh Branham and Mark Hirschfeld,
Re-Engage: How America’s Best Places to Work
Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times
21. “Highly engaged employees make the
customer experience. Disengaged employees
break it.” - Timothy R. Clark, The 5 Ways That
Highly Engaged Employees are Different
22. “Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated
workers cannot compete in a highly competitive
world.” - Francis Hesselbein, Hesselbein on
Leadership
23. “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for
which he is best suited.” – Napoleon Hill
24. “Research indicates that workers have three
prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for
doing a good job, and being let in on things that
are going on in the company.” - Zig Ziglar
25. “Throw yourself into some work you believe in
with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you
will find happiness that you had thought could
never be yours.” – Dale Carnegie
26. “Appreciate everything your associates do for
the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for
a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of
praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a
fortune.” - Sam Walton
27. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have
to leave their hearts at home.” - Betty Bender
28. “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm
among men the greatest asset I possess. The
way to develop the best that is in a man is by
appreciation and encouragement.” – Charles
Schwab
29. “Your work is to discover your work and then
with all your heart to give yourself to it.” - Buddha
30. “The only way to do great work is to love
what you do.” Steve jobs

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