Workplace Interaction Quotes

Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.”

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

Management by Walking Around

If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.

As a black manager, somebody talking in good terms about me I don't think can be a bad thing.

If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.

I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

Sometimes, my manager is caught off guard by me talking to myself, so he'll start talking back to me.

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.