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Take great care to ensure past assumptions and old truths never obstruct new discoveries. Be open, humble, and eager to learn that you’re wrong – before someone else does.
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193 |
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When people are in the dark, they start to speculate about what’s happening. And their assumptions are often wrong. Inform people so that everyone is on the same page.
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164 |
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Do your research. Listen to the customers, and focus on needs, not your own assumptions. After research, run pilots to test ideas and/or programs.
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096 |
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Precisely because they are taken for granted, basic assumptions are very hard to change.
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082 |
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In career transitions, the basic assumptions that typically prove most resistant to change concern our emotional relationships with institutions, our benchmarks for success, and our preconceived notions about viable work arrangements.
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082 |
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The ability to step outside of oneself and one’s assumptions temporarily is an effective prophylactic against denial.
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115 |
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Unless you can easily identify something you did that could be causing you boss’s bad mood, don’t assume it’s you.
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218 |
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Since every business leader’s job is to increase the value of the enterprise, you might assume they’d all be obsessed with growth. But you’d be wrong.
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114 |
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The assumption should rather be that all programs outlive their usefulness fast and should be scrapped unless proven productive and necessary.
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2159 |
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To go and look for oneself is also the best, if not the only, way to test whether the assumptions on which a decision had been made are still valid or whether they are becoming obsolete and need to be thought through again.
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