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Because our core need for value is so rarely acknowledged or addressed in most organizations, we typically try to keep this hunger under warps and invisible at work.
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143 |
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Frightening as it may be to acknowledge our shortcomings and admit our mistakes, the irony is that doing so tends to inspire greater respect, not less.
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154 |
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Information…represents the raw material from which original thinking emerges – and the more knowledge one has, the better the base.
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218 |
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…no one can take away your values, and knowing who you are goes a long way.
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238 |
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Chaos is all around us now, the but the leader knows that chaos is the beginning, not the end. Chaos is the source of energy and momentum.
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187 |
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Candor is the key to self-knowledge. Candor is based in honesty of thought and action, a steadfast devotion to principle, and a fundamental soundness and wholeness.
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034 |
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Only when we know what we’re made of and what we want to make of it can we begin our lives – and we must do it despite an unwitting conspiracy of people and events against us.
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044 |
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If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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…all of us can find tangible and intangible rewards in self-knowledge and self-control, because if you go on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll go on getting what you’ve always got – which may be less than you want or deserve.
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Major stumbling blocks on the path to self-knowledge are denial and blame.
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053 |
