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ZENgagement: Work is pervasive

February 27, 2008 by David Zinger 1 Comment

Employee Engagement is all about work.

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Speaking about the daily activities in which humans engage, everything is work — being alive and in a body is already work. Every day there is eating and sh..ting and cleaning up. There is brushing and bathing and flossing. Every day there is thinking and caring and creating. So there is no escape from work — it’s everywhere.  for Zen students there’s no work time and leisure time; there’s just lifetime, daytime and nighttime. Work is something deep and dignified — it’s what we are born to do and what we feel most fulfilled in doing. ~ Norman Fischer, Zen monk abbot, (From Howard Gardner’s Responsibility at Work).

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Filed Under: Employee Engagement, Zengagement

Comments

  1. Tim Wright says

    February 28, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    David –

    A fresh, if all-inclusive, perspective!

    I like that Fischer, by omission, makes clear what the “it” in sh–t is all about.

    Tim

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