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“Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever.”
― Dan Pontefract, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization

“Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion. ”
― Dan Pontefract, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization

“Take care of your employees, and they’ll take care of your customers.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“Each of us deserves a life where we get paid to fulfill our purpose, in an organization that consciously chooses to do good.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role, and Your Organization

“One specific goal we should contemplate is how to seek out a role in an organization that helps fulfill our personal sense of purpose.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role, and Your Organization

“purpose will play a much larger role, even to the point where it is a daily expression of who they are and why they exist as a business.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“that individuals who consider themselves to be engaged at work are twice as productive, stay five times longer in their job, are six times more energized and take 10 times fewer sick days than those who are not.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“Gallup defines engagement as the point at which workers are “psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“Purpose and culture are a bit like fraternal twins. If the concept of purpose is solid and balanced—if the organization also portrays an open and collaborative culture—stakeholders ought to see improved results.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“The Easterlin Paradox, named for Richard Easterlin’s argument in a 1974 essay, taught us that increasing levels of pay over time does not equate to increased levels of happiness.12”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“I find the idea of being responsible for some change in the world truly captivating: the idea of closing my eyes 10 years from now and smiling at the fact that people are being helped directly because of what I have built.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

“The Purpose Effect results in a higher calling, where individuals and organizations seek to improve society to benefit all stakeholders.”
― Dan Pontefract, The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role, and Your Organization