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Habits are often as much of a curse as a benefit.

…among the most important benefits of routines is that they create truces between potentially warring groups or individuals within an organization.

Quiet Leaders… listen to people as though they have all the tools they need to be successful, and could simply benefit from exploring their thoughts and ideas out loud.

While it might take a bit of additional energy up front, the benefits of being succinct are immediate and tangible.

Often, our passion and perseverance do not spring from a cold, calculating analysis of the costs and benefits of alternatives. Rather, the source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.

…disclosing our thoughts, feelings and actions… brings an array of physical, mental, and professional benefits.

…big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits… are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work…

…tasks that leverage your expertise tend to be deep tasks and they can therefore provide a double benefit: They return more value per time spent, and they stretch our abilities, leading to improvement.

…fixed-schedule productivity can yield powerful benefits.

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action.