Chapter 5 Quotes

Here is the quotes for tomorrows chat, hope you can join us with David Price joining us from England. Lets give him an awesome #WYOedchat welcome. 

what makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies. Her conclusion? Forget incentive schemes, and concentrate on the ‘inner work life’ of employees: their emotions, perceptions and intrinsic motivations.

“The overall results indicate that 11 percent of workers worldwide are engaged. In other words, about one in nine employees worldwide is emotionally connected to their workplaces and feels   he or she has the resources and support they need to succeed.

In 1986, 72 percent of professionals felt they had a ‘great deal’ of independence doing their jobs. By 2006, that number had fallen to 38

10-15% will have “permission to think.” The rest of us will merely carry out their decisions…

98 percent of US students feel bored at school at least some of the time; two-thirds feel bored every day; 17 percent say they are bored every

60 percent don’t list learning as the reason they go to

‘disengaged achievers,’ gaining good grades, but emotionally disinvested in their

unintended ‘side effect’ of this processing of students to become achieving, not engaged, learners, is to kill off a love of learning. American educators label this ‘drilling and killing”

fengagement was a key determinant of student success 20 years later: ‘The more children felt connected to their school community and felt engaged, rather than bored, the greater their likelihood of achieving a higher educational qualification and going on to a professional or managerial career.’

  In other words, an engaged student, from a disadvantaged background, is likely to have better life chances than a disengaged child from a better off background.

‘Work is Learning and Learning is the Work’,