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In putting safety above everything, we actually put ourselves in danger. Of being forgotten. Of never coming close. Of being complicit.

What we are familiar with, we can manage. Danger can be mitigated by experience and by good training.

Although complacency and resistance to change remain dangers to any successful enterprise, overreaching better captures how the mighty fall.

Market domination produces tremendous internal resistance against any innovation and thus makes adaptation to change dangerously difficult.

…there are few things quite as dangerous as an organization in which promotions are so rapid as to become the accepted reward for doing a decent job.

…the real danger of pursuit of stuff may be that most stuff is harmless, and therefore, utterly seductive.

…science has determined that multitasking is for most practical purposes a myth, and heeding its siren call leads to inefficiency and even danger.

Even though many managers – and employees – would like to ignore emotions, pretending that such ‘messy’ things do not belong in the workplace, such studied ignorance is a dangerous gamble.

History… shows that the biggest danger for retail and restaurant operators is a loss of focus.

Not all feelings should be weighted equally. Trusting everything your brain throws at you without holding it up to a light is dangerous.