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You ease the creation of a new behavior by piggybacking it on an existing habit, meaning you don’t have to make a major adjustment to your routine.

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Writing, displaying, and repeating words about treating people with respect, but allowing or encouraging the opposite behavior, is worse than useless.

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…if you keep one or two token assholes around, then you want to make it crystal clear that their behavior is wrong.

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The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

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Any human, like any animal, tends to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more we achieve, the more reinforcement we get.

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People will do something – including change their behavior – only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

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That’s the funny thing about stopping some behavior. It gets no attention, but it can be as crucial as everything else we do combined.

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As we advance in our careers, behavioral changes are often the only significant changes we can make.

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The reality for leaders… is that in the past very bright people would put up with disrespectful behavior, but in the future they will leave!

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…without clear metrics… business behavior is vulnerable to unstable whim and shifting forces, and in this volatile scrum deep work has fared particularly poorly.

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