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With all this rhetoric about how management, is about change, the fact is that we managers loathe change, especially when it involves us.
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123 |
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It is an annoying fact that explicitly cultural language is better for describing post-hoc what has happened than it is for provoking the happening in the first place.
|
057 |
 |
People who have gotten used to doing things a certain way are often uninterested in investing in change, and a change that may seem easy for the innovator may in fact be quite difficult for the user who is a linear thinker.
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046 |
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…it is an accepted fact that social isolation ranks up there with cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure as risk factors for an early demise.
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036 |
 |
…positive emotions matter more than people realize. Usually regarded as a result rather than a cause, positive emotion is in fact a powerful abuse of good results of any kind.
|
044 |
 |
…even arresting facts may not arrest us because we have grown so accustomed to reading or hearing them.
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116 |
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Time is a finite resource, but we behave as if it were infinite because, at the deepest level, we deny the fact of death in our everyday lives.
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141 |
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This is in fact the only way a human can multitask effectively – practice one action so thoroughly that it becomes automatic, thus freeing up neurons to attend to matters other than the menial aspects of the task.
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175 |
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People… want faith – faith in you, your product, your success, and in the story you tell. Faith, not facts, moves mountains.
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047 |
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Board meetings are the time and place for discussing strategic issues – not for conveying the factual information contained in reports.
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082 |
