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Once you have carefully diagnosed an individual’s strengths and given them a near-perfect job in which they have a natural capacity to perform, make sure they have one of the world’s great managers.
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186 |
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Our capacity to attend to change is a limited resource. Hence, less is more (more or less).
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258 |
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…we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.
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86 |
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As we grow older, we develop the capacity to reflect on our actions and pass judgment on what we admire and disdain in others.
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215 |
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…if you’re willing to… deploy your mind to its fullest capacity to create things that matter, then you’ll discover… that depth generates a life rich with productivity and meaning.
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263 |
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Attention in organizations, as with individuals, has a limited capacity. Organizations… have to choose where to allocate attention, focusing on this while ignoring that.
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210 |
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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46 |
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The more easily and happily you can walk away from a negotiation, the greater your capacity to affect its outcome.
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108 |
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In a complex world, disturbances are inevitable, making such a capacity to absorb shocks increasingly important.
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076 |
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Unlike computers, human beings have the potential to grow and develop, to increase our depth, complexity and capacity over time. To make that possible, we must manage ourselves far more skillfully than we do now.
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