Book Titles

The Enthusiastic Employee
How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What they Want

By David Sirota, Douglas Klein

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0133249026
Categories: Employees, Employers, Enthusiasm

238 Quotes Found

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…there is no difference between the qualities that are important for truly effective business leadership and the qualities that are typically used to describe a charismatic leader.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…the organization-centered leader… understands that his value is multiplied many times over because of the contributions of others.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…an outstanding leader… wants to build an enduring organization, indeed – one that will outlast him.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…the credibility of a boss is enormously important to employees.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

A lack of integrity… is toxic to the trust that is the foundation of the leader-follower relationship.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

It is essential that followers sense in their leader determination, drive, courage, self-confidence, decisiveness, resilience…

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Central to the wisdom of great leaders is modesty in the sense of an understanding of their reliance – no matter how bright and strong and energetic they are – on others.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Failures and mistakes in the course of running a business are inevitable.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

What, at its heart, is the job of a boss? It is getting work done through others and accepting accountability for their performance.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Partnership works because it harnesses the natural motivation and enthusiasm that is characteristic of the overwhelming majority of workers.

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