9 June 2008 No Comment Print This Post  Email This Post

Some great sentences/thoughts that I came across while reading the book:

* What is an employee’s purpose? Most would say, “to help the company achieve its purpose”, but they would be wrong. That is certainly part of an employee’s role, but an employee’s primary purpose is to become the best version of himself or herself.

* If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.

* Nobody knows the business like those who work in the trenches of it every single day. Ask your employees. They know more than you think.

* All employees have dreams. We need to find a way to connect their job today with their dreams for tomorrow.

* If we can help our employees beyond the quiet desperation of mere survival by teaching them to dream again, and help them to fulfil their dreams, we’ll create a loyalty and dedication that’s unmatched. And then our people will bring the passion and energy they have for their dreams to their work.

* In many ways, we are our dreams. But people stop dreaming because they get caught up in the hustle and bustle of surviving. And once we stop dreaming, we start to lead lives of quiet desperation, and little by little the passion and energy begin to disappear from our lives.

* Helping people chase and fulfil their dreams is one of the primary functions of all relationships. And this is true whether that relationship is between husband and wife, parent and child, or employer and employee.

* Dreams bring us to life. Dreams animate us, and what dreams do for individuals, they also do for relationships … and companies. The pursuit of dreams creates passion, energy, enthusiasm and vitality.

* So, What is your dream, and why aren’t you living it?