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The most effective mentors not only dispense advice and coach their mentees to do their best; they also help develop or deepen values.
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045 |
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Mentoring can happen effectively when you constantly think about what it’s like to be that person. – Stephen A. Schwarzman
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164 |
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Planning is working on the project. Progress in planning is progress on the project, often the most cost-effective you can achieve. We lose sight of these facts at our peril.
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034 |
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Exhaustive planning that enables swift delivery, narrowing the time window that black swans can crash through, is an effective means of mitigating this risk.
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119 |
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Task switching is one of those phenomena that have almost no redeeming features. Research shows that it makes us slower. Less effective. More prone to errors. More stressed.
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106 |
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In general, strategies that require people to do more work can prove effective for containing tasks.
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091 |
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The more you can tame the small commitments pulling at your attention, the more sustainably and effectively you can work on things that matter.
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095 |
