Promotions Quotes

“Continuing to confuse career development with attaining specific positions will only limit the growth that both employees and organizations need.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“When climbing and moving are positioned as the only way to really develop, the message that employees get is “step up or stagnate.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Talented people are going to develop careers somewhere. How can you make sure it’s with you and your organization?”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Fundamental to helping your employees grow is having the belief that people are smart, capable, and insightful.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Passion without action is of little value.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“The work becomes the development. The development becomes the work.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Development accelerates in the presence of difficulties that stretch people beyond where they are today.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“For too long, careers have been measured against major markers, points in time, and the artificial yardstick of new positions or titles.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Confidence is the profound yet frequently overlooked dimension of development that boils down to trusting and appreciating one’s talents and abilities.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“The problem is that promotions are a small part of what makes up careers and career development.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“At its core, macromanagement is a development strategy that allows you to position others to learn more, do more, and be more.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Careers have changed. It’s time for career development to catch up!”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Career development takes on a different complexion during different seasons of life.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.”
― Amit Kalantri

“What some fail to understand and keep in their minds is that I am always fundamentally promoting the 'Things of God', The Cause of Jesus Christ, and The Kingdom of God”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

“Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

“The mansion has been built in the forest, now to light the fireworks and draw the playmates in.”
― Trevor Carss

“Only a few clouds marred an otherwise clear warm day in New York City. School had just let out in the spring of 1951 and the thought of having the summer off was suddenly shattered by knowing that I would have to go to work washing dishes at my uncle’s restaurant. In my family, there was no such thing as a summer vacation. The only allowance I ever received came from having a job. Well, that’s not completely true, as an aunt would sometimes slip me a few bucks when my parents weren’t watching. Even as children when we were in grade school, my brother Bill and I had to work. Aside from shining shoes at local taverns, we did many odd jobs. This would not be the first time I worked for my uncle. During the last Christmas break, I worked as a “pearl diver” at my uncle’s restaurant on 86th Street and 1st Avenue. It was always on a holiday or during the Christmas season that he needed me to cover for the employees who wanted time off. In the days before mechanical dishwashers, pearl divers made certain that there were always more clean dishes than dirty ones. During the rush hours, this could be a challenge, but I had it down to a science. You might say that I was a professional!
One day, I arrived at work and discovered that I was the only one there. That promoted me to the exalted position of chief cook and bottle washer, as well as the counter man!”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One"

“Beyond, between, and besides the upward climb toward promotions and positions, there are many other ways that employees want to grow.”
― Julie Winkle Giulioni, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

“Put yourself in places where you don't belong, get used to it now because you will get there.”
― Janna Cachola