Workplace Quotes - Page 13

• I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Home, Air

  "Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the campaign trail". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. October 31, 2007.

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• Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Role Models, Leader

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• Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical social and political change to construct meaningful popular control of all institutions - in communities, in the workplace, in the larger society, and on to the international order.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Real, Order

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Women make up half our workforce and this has an impact at home on spouses and children. This means the workplace must change because women - who have historically been the primary caregivers at home - are now fully in the workforce and here to stay.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Children, Home, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I love that I'm able to take people away just for a little while. Even if they come to my show and it's an escape from taxes or heartbreak or a shitty workplace experience - all those human beings I get to sing for laugh and emote with give me more happiness than I could ever give them.

  Michael Buble

  People, Giving, Laughing

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

  Jessica Walsh

  Responsibility, Thinking, Waste

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• Thing that we wanted to do was redefine what a green job was, what a climate job was. We said: "Wait a minute. There's all these people out there who are doing low-carbon work." It's not just guys in hard hats putting up solar panels. Teaching is low carbon. Caring for the sick is low carbon. Daycare is a green workplace. Overwhelmingly, this is work that is done by women, overwhelmingly women of color, on the frontlines of austerity clawbacks.

  Naomi Klein

  Teaching, Caring, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be successful in these fields, bullying behaviour is almost a prerequisite.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Successful, Government

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• Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they're irreconcilable. I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.

  Bill Shorten

  War, Believe, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Heartless, Tasks

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• It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

  David Chipperfield

  Creative, Important, Sometimes

  "Box clever". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some bullying behaviours may be present in these issues, in my view this dilutes and devalues the term "workplace bullying" which should be used only for the more serious cases of conflict involving a serial bully. If there isn't a serial bully involved, it's probably not bullying you're dealing with.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Issues, Views

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• The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Creative Collaboration

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• The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

  Byron Katie

  True Friend, Thinking, Knows

  "Creating Leadership Calm During Chaos: Interview with International Speaker and Best-Selling Author, Byron Katie". Interview with Ann Marie MacDougall, www.linkedin.com. June 18, 2017.

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• I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Powerful, Ambition, Trying

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• Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

  Richard Florida

  Work, Creativity, Iron

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, Home

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• HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary. He longs to be WORSHIPED when we sit at the dinner table and not just when we come to His communion table. You may go days without THINKING of Him, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of YOU.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking Of You, Morning, Sunday

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

  John Seely Brown

  Successful, Technology, Effectiveness

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• I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that solution must be built from the ground up on the banks of this flooding river and it must be raised to a height higher than flood waters. Now what does that look like? It looks like policies and programs that cultivate healthy levels of physical activity, healthy dietary patterns in homes, in schools, in supermarkets, in neighborhoods, in clinics, in churches, in workplaces, throughout our society, every place we can reach people.

  David Katz

  School, Home, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.

  Emily Yoffe

  Political, Comfort, Republican

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Men, Values, Respect Women

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

  Kevin Drum

  Exercise, Focus, Tasks

  "Trey Gowdy Still Tracking Down Benghazi Conspiracy Theories" by Kevin Drum, April 29, 2016.

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