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Leaders can come in different forms and flavors, but core elements rarely vary: talent, integrity, courage, vision, commitment, empathy, humility, and confidence.
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The realities of this world are hard work, preparation, negotiation, determination, commitment, honesty, and charity.
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In setting rules for how to behave in the future, you’re often in a calm, cool state, so you make unrealistic commitments.
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What [begins] as a precommitment [turns] into something permanent and more valuable: a habit.
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Once you’re committed to following a bright-line rule, your present self can feel confident that your future self will observe it, too.
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Precommitment helps you avoid the hot-cold empathy gap… the common failure to appreciate, in moments of cool deliberation, how you’ll feel in the heat of later moments.
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There are actually three kinds of ‘Yes’: Counterfeit, Confirmation, and Commitment.
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’No’ starts conversations and creates safe havens to get to the final ‘Yes’ of commitment.
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…with fewer controls comes great employee commitment and enthusiasm, which, in turn and in the manner of a virtuous cycle, requires fewer controls to operate effectively.
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…committing to employees in fundamental respects pays off big time over the long term.
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