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Danger

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The danger, always, is of being seen to buy authenticity. It’s not tradeable.

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Data is dangerously prone to creating measurement cultures. But what we really need is effectiveness culture.

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The greatest danger of being overwhelmed is not that you will fail to meet your goals, but that you will fail to think at your best and give birth to your best ideas.

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…attachment to procedure instead of purpose offers a clear example of the dangers of prizing efficiency over adaptability.

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The organization as a rigidly reductionist mechanical beast is an endangered species.

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The most dangerous time in the hiring process is after someone has given notice at her previous organization and hasn’t yet started at yours.

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There’s greater danger of screwing up because of too much money than because of too little.

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…we’re biologically wired to sense danger. The result is that we notice what’s wrong with our lives far more readily than we do what’s right.

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Human beings are hardwired to protect themselves. We avoid danger and seek out places in which we feel safe.

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Real or perceived, when there is danger, we act from a place of fear rather than confidence.

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