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The ability to make a person feel that, when you’re with that person, he or she is the most important (and the only) person in the room is the skill that separates the great from the near-great.
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Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limits. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
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If you can’t produce, you won’t thrive – no matter how skilled or talented you are.
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Deep work is… a pragmatic recognition that the ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done.
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Whether someone is the ‘right person’ has more to do with character traits and innate capabilities than with specific knowledge, background, or skills.
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…giving is an acquired skill that few of us have mastered. These components are tied together and require a great deal of practice to achieve.
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The most contentious question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
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Unfortunately, for most of us, the instant our buttons are pushed, all our hard-won skills fly straight out the window.
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A product team is a group of people who bring together different specialized skills and responsibilities and feel real ownership for a product…
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More important than the absolute size of the team is the balance of skills needed to ensure we build the right things, and build those things right.
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