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Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as changing how one things about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself.

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…weak self-control is central to personal and social problems.

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…if you can get at what people are really buying – then you can sell them a vision of their problem that leaves your proposal as the perfect solution.

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Calibrated questions have the power to educate your counterpart on what the problem is rather than causing conflict by telling them what the problem is.

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The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue.

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The ability to mix technical knowledge with solving real-world problems is the key, not sheer number-crunching or programming for its own sake.

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Sometimes the skills of computers will be used for outright cheating, and we can expect this problem to increase as the computers get better.

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…leadership is not simply about a position or title. An individual can have a high-sounding title such as CEO and not be considered a leader. And that… is an enormous problem.

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At the root of every seemingly technical problem is a human problem.

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…pandemics [rank] as a ‘wicked’ problem – not in the sense of ‘evil,’ but rather meaning extremely hard to solve.

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