Rules of Engagement Quotes

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” —Theodore Roosevelt”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“If the culture of the organization is broken, it can quickly erode any sense of safety.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“A child learns by taking risks and making mistakes. If a child were worried that every time it stumbled and fell it would be punished or that its parents would stop loving it, it would never learn to walk. Adult learning is no different. We can memorize facts and figures by rote, but the only way to gain lessons and learn from experience is to take a risk and to be allowed to fail.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“In a world where each employee is just a row on a spreadsheet, each employer becomes just a paragraph on a resume.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“When an employer lets go of someone, it is sometimes because they breached the formal written contract of employment. When someone quits, it is almost always because their manager or the company breached the unwritten contract.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“It’s hard to put a cost on lost creativity or ideas that weren’t generated. You can’t put a value on innovation that didn’t happen.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“Rather than fight the overwhelm, it’s easier for an employee to simply disconnect, emotionally and psychologically, from their job and from the company.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World

“We don’t need managers anymore. We need leaders who understand both how business works and how people work.”
― Carolyn Swora, Rules of Engagement: Building a Workplace Culture to Thrive in an Uncertain World