Employee Engagement

Another "E" post before the week is gone... I want to share this post from David Zinger--mostly for the poem by Moshe Safdie!

Employee Engagement Extra: Making Projects Unique

By David Zinger on Employee Engagement

Welcome to the Employee Engagement Extra.

I encourage you to watch Moshe Safdie talk about what makes a building unique. I encourage you to think through Mr. Safdie’s experience with buildings for the employee engagement you may be working at building in your organization. View the 17 minute video by clicking on the screen below or by clicking here to go to the TED Site.

Mr. Safdie concludes the video with the following poem he wrote:

He who seeks truth shall find beauty
He who seeks beauty shall find vanity

He who seeks order shall find gratification
He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed

He who considers himself a servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self expression
He who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance

Arrogance is incompatible with nature
Through nature the nature of the universe and the nature of man we shall seek truth
If we seek truth we shall find beauty

~ Moshe Safdie

Civility

We (plain language advocates) always advise that you avoid negative sentence constructions and seek the positive form of your message.

But I always find it difficult to do this.Dilbert's Scott Adams has offered this example today:

Politeness

By Scott_Adams on General Nonsense

"Recently I saw a sign outside a store that said, “Please enjoy our food and drinks outside.” It seemed so much nicer than the more direct “No food and drinks."


Read Adams' full post here.