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To be a world-class company, you need world-class effort. If somebody isn’t giving it to you, they must be checked.

To obtain balanced efforts, the objectives of all managers on all levels and in all areas should also be keyed to both short-range and long-range considerations.

When you procrastinate, you’re not avoiding effort. You’re avoiding the unpleasant feelings that the activity stirs up. Sooner or later, though, you realize that you’re also avoiding getting where you want to go.

Collective intelligence rises as team members recognize one another’s strengths, develop strategies for leveraging them, and motivate one another to align their efforts in pursuit of a shared purpose.

Any free-market system inevitably will have unequal results because individuals have unequal talents, exert unequal effort, and experience unequal luck.

Forgiveness, gratitude, conviviality, and related mental states are active conditions that require effort to achieve. You can have these worldviews, but you’ve got to work at it.

There is no one formula for improving activation; your efforts must be tailored specifically to your product…

Complacency and failure to innovate in marketing efforts can also lead to massive slowdown in growth.

Managing risks… is a way of organizing the future, and surveillance is a natural offshoot of our now-obsessive efforts to control what’s coming around the corner.

…self-controlled students manage their efforts at learning not only by suppressing distractions but by constantly evaluating their own thought and progress.