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When someone describes his job as pointless or worthless, he is necessarily operating within some sort of tacit theory of value: an idea of what would be a worthwhile occupation, and therefore what is not.

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When you shift the frame to visibility, you’ll notice it’s not all about you… it becomes about making your work and ideas available to those who can utilize them.

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The whiteboard is safe for us. It’s cozy because it doesn’t expose our ideas to criticism or rejection.

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…brilliant women feature others’ ideas to sidestep claiming their own thought leadership.

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The best forecasters view their own ideas as hypotheses in need of testing.

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The aversion to contrary ideas is not a simple artifact of stupidity or ignorance.

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Embracing a new idea just because your competitors have adopted it can be a recipe for disaster.

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Modularity drives down costs, allows for flexibility, and encourages innovation by making it easier to combine components, services, and ideas.

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The idea that hierarchy requires top-down, authoritative decision-making by a single boss is largely a fiction.

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When people get to contribute ideas, they have mental skin in the game.

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