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…modeling is the most powerful thing you can do as an individual leader to improve culture.
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Talent – how fast we improve in skill – absolutely matters. But effort factors into the calculation twice, not once.
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Rather than focus on what they already do well, experts strive to improve specific weaknesses.
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…there are different kinds of positive experience: the thrill of getting better is one, and the ecstasy of performing at your best is another.
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Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them. – Andy Grove
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Unlike negative criticism, coaching trains its sights on future improvement.
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Mindfulness can help us… follow the original commandment of self-improvement, straight from the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece: Know thyself.
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When you’ve dropped the ball or forgotten something or didn’t handle things right, own it. Apologize. Make amends and do better next time. No excuses.
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We need the ability to regret our poor decisions – to feel bad about them – precisely so we can improve those decisions in the future.
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