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It isn’t easy to discuss mistakes, confront tensions, or talk about deep fears or secret hopes, but no strong relationship can be built on superficial pleasantries alone.
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061 |
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Seeking new business is the least favorite part of business for many people, so it is all too easy to delay such activities. But if you hope to get out of a slump, this is the only path.
|
067 |
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Only when you get to know your direct reports well enough to know why they care about their work, what they hope to get out of their careers, and where they are in the present moment in time can you end up the right people in the right roles and assign the right projects to the right people.
|
048 |
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…hope often depends on illusion.
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034 |
 |
…in free markets, somebody is always thinking about dramatic changes. You’re much better off doing so yourself rather than hoping it won’t happen.
|
052 |
 |
Pare back your design until it’s the smallest possible element of what you eventually hope to have.
|
167 |
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Without direct, unencumbered access to actual users and customers, the product team has little hope of any kind of success.
|
010 |
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When you feel necessity, you don’t sit around wishing or hoping. You get things done.
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129 |
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High performers’ dreams of living extraordinary lives aren’t mere wishes and hopes. They make their dream a necessity.
|
138 |
