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…the most important things are hardly ever urgent.
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81 |
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We get so focused on what is urgent – that we miss what could be… and what matters most.
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82 |
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True urgency focuses on critical issues, not agendas overstuffed with the important and the trivial.
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6 |
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A real sense of urgency is a highly positive and highly focused force.
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8 |
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Anxiety and anger drive behavior that can be energetic – which is why people mistake false for true urgency.
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23 |
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When people see the external world clearly, it can increase their sense of urgency.
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68 |
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Increasingly changing environments create a need for alertness and agility, which demand a sense of urgency that must be modeled by the boss all the time.
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108 |
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A sense of urgency can… begin with a single person and then expand outward.
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115 |
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…it is often only a steadily growing wave of people behaving with real urgency each and every day that can conquer built-up cynicism and negativity…
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115 |
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Because true urgency has this strong element of now, it can be easy to forget the time frame into which large changes and achievements fit.
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117 |
