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Perhaps no factor influences productivity more directly than people’s capacity for absorbed attention.
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232 |
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Social scientists are finding that once people are aware of their biases, know how they work, and pay mindful attention to them… they have greater power to control them.
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301 |
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There’s almost no accomplishment that is possible without calling some attention to yourself.
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072 |
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…never give up on yourself. You never know when the tide is going to turn in your favor, providing you have been paying attention and working toward something worthwhile.
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075 |
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When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it.
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059 |
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To diagnose problems early, managers must pay attention to the warning signs. A theory of the business becomes obsolete when an organization attains is original objectives.
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093 |
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Complicated controls do not work. They confuse. They misdirect attention away from what is to be controlled, and toward the mechanics and methodology of the control.
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328 |
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Breaks are not a distraction – they’re a chance to reset attention and incubate ideas.
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103 |
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Children pay attention to our attention: where we focus tells them what we prize.
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173 |
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The fact that Mavens want to help, for no other reason than because they like to help, turns out to be an awfully effective way of getting someone’s attention.
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067 |
