Joe Root Quotes

At the highest level, a discussion can be good sometimes to get everyone back on their toes.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.

You talk to the boss about your ideas and things like that, and all he can say is yes or no. I mean, you don't open your mouth, you don't give him your ideas, you're not really trying.

Meetings should have as few people as possible, but all the right people.

Communicate with the front office, communicate with the staff, communicate with the secretaries, everybody. And make everybody feel a part of something. That's important.

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

I try to educate myself as much as possible, as I do with the director and the designers and everyone I used to work with. It just helps, I think, with the frame of reference for who you're working with.

It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one