50 Posts Found

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Work

You can never outwork a problem. You have to outthink it.

Content: Quotation | Author: A.G. Lafley | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Work

People involved in “risky work”, as opposed to “repetitive work,” face three challenges: to create, to communicate, and to collaborate.

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard P. Gabriel | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Work

Popular culture insists our jobs are drudgery, and one survey recently made headlines by reporting that fewer than a third of American workers felt engaged; that is praised, encouraged, cared for and several other gauges seemingly aimed at measuring how transcendently fulfilled one is at work.

Those criteria are too high for most marriages, let alone jobs. What if we ask something simpler: “All things considered, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Human Resources, Work

When we work only to do, we most often find ourselves helplessly doing again without having placed the first doing in any context, without having celebrated any accomplishment… Most people who exhibit mastery in a work or a subject often have left it completely for a long period, only to return for another look. Constant busyness has no absence in it, no openness to the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Whyte | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Work

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joesph Joubert | Subjects: Execution, Management, Personal Development, Work

Richard S. Wellins, Paul Bernthal, and Mark Phelps of Development Dimensions International wrote in a 2005 article, “for the past two decades we have been trying to realize the benefits of empowerment, teamwork, recognition, people development, performance management, and new leadership styles.“

If you want to know why efforts to engage the workforce have failed so dismally, look again at that list. It contains not a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James Krohe Jr. | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Motivation, Work

Imagine that you are trying to understand someone’s job function. You walk up to them as they’re standing next to a fax machine and ask them to tell you “what” they are doing. They are likely to look at you a bit surprised and say “I am sending a fax.” You might ask some follow-up questions about whether sending a fax is a necessary step … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ric Merrifield | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Work

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Content: Quotation | Author: Elbert Hubbard | Subjects: Human Resources, Work

There’s a great saying: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” I find that in business a lot people take the time to write the really long letter, but they don’t take time to write the short one, and it even applies to doing investments.

Content: Quotation | Author: Greg Brenneman | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Work

The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifices. It’s the work in which you can best succeed.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jean-Paul Sartre | Source: Hold this Thought | Subject: Work

To access the energy of the human spirit, people need to clarify priorities and establish accompanying rituals in three categories: doing what they do best and enjoy most at work; consciously allocating time and energy to the areas of their lives—work, family, health, service to others—they deem most important; and living their core values in their daily behaviors.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Catherine McCarthy, Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Time Management, Work

Mere work ethic is not enough. The hardened criminal exhibits an excellent work ethic. What is needed is a work ethic conditioned by ethics in work.

Content: Quotation | Source: MBA Depot | Subjects: Ethics, Work

The Paul Principle: People are promoted until the job is no longer any fun.

Content: Quotation | Source: ML2 | Subject: Work

People follow people they like. And they like people who know how to have fun. Life is too short to treat your work as a life-or-death situation. Those leaders who learn to bring some fun to the workplace will always be welcomed. What it really comes down to is learning to enjoy people and relish life while working together. Your work shouldn’t be your life, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Leadership, Work

How does responsibility constrain you? The worst thing is that it allows you not to focus on real work. Just as the most dangerous forms of procrastination are those that seem like work, the danger of responsibilities is not just that they can consume a whole day, but that they can do it without setting off the kind of alarms you’d set off if you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Productivity / Work Tips, Work

Whether inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing that I can do is to make sure it finds me at work.

Content: Quotation | Source: Good Luck: Create the Conditions for Success in Life & Business | Subjects: Innovation, Work

Work banishes the three great evils – boredom, vice and poverty.

Content: Quotation | Source: Candide | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Work

The famous concern for “legacy” among older execs often is little more than a tacit confession that the power and perks for which one clawed one’s way to the top are no longer satisfying.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Work

People tend to become so engrossed in activity that they lose sight of purpose.

Content: Quotation | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Work