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For leadership development to succeed, top management needs to demonstrate that commitment comes from the top.
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…if I ask a leader to deliver a project with a key set of attributes by a specific date and that leader doesn’t challenge me, that leader has made a commitment.
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Boundaries are necessary because of people’s tendency to escalate their commitment to their choices.
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…tripwires allow us the certainty of committing to a course of action, even a risky one, while minimizing the costs of overconfidence.
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…your business must be… Alive, growing, committed to keeping a promise no competitor would dare to make.
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If you want to use your 168 hours effectively, once you make a commitment to yourself to spend a certain number of hours on a task, keep it. Never miss a deadline.
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…once you start breaking commitments to yourself and the people around you, the whole system of discipline – the trust you build up in yourself to be in control of things – breaks down.
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Research shows that many of us don’t follow through on the goals we set or don’t keep the promises and commitments we make to ourselves.
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Every time we make and keep a commitment to ourselves – large or small – we increase our self-confidence.
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…don’t make too many commitments. If you do, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
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