Quotes about Engagement

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

How alive am I willing to be?

And while everyone has to make a living and show up for family, listening is optional. You have to make a conscious decision to listen harder.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Write like you talk. Often.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I'll bet, make change.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

Response is always better than reaction.

marketers have turned advertising into an interactive process. Using relationships and frequency and permission

Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.