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The first secret of effectiveness is to understand the people with whom one works and on whom one depends, and to make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values.
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494 |
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Cognitive skills that amplify our ability to take in and understand information lay the groundwork for becoming a sponge. As we become more spongelike, we become better equipped to achieve greater things.
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048 |
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…the best way to learn something is to teach it. You remember it better after you recall it – and you understand it better after you explain it.
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…when people know each other well, they create an implicit joint memory system – a transactive memory system – which is based on an understanding about who is best suited to remember what kinds of things.
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…teams should experiment with a product option that is priced to help customers better understand the relative value of the items and plans you hope to sell.
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254 |
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Attention helps us understand and make sense of the world and is crucial as a first step to creating memory.
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094 |
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Today we firmly depend on our powers of visual attention to understand our environment. The eyes have it, we’ve come to believe.
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136 |
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To fully understand the rich intricacy of any writing… we must go deeply into the text.
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We present to the world a tapestry of externalities that may or may not match our inner emotions, and we bumble through misreading and misunderstandings with even those we know best.
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Today… we have lost the necessary understanding that an inner resourcefulness must always go hand in hand with using our devices, or else we risk ceding control of our lives to our tools.
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