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Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements.
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011 |
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If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin. Soon enough, the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you want until then, it’s going to be too late.
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093 |
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To have all these advantages… and then settle for mediocrity and then defend the status quo and then worry about corporate politics – what a waste.
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135 |
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Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.
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215 |
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Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
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274 |
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…what’s the first step to changing norms? It’s breaking the code of silence around the problem that always sustains the status quo.
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175 |
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…the disadvantages of a change loom larger than its advantages, including a bias that favors the status quo.
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292 |
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Loss aversion is a powerful conservative force that favors minimal changes from the status quo in the lives of both institutions and individuals.
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305 |
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This evolutionary tendency to avoid losses, even to obtain gains, further cements people’s desire to maintain the status quo.
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050 |
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People should be encouraged and inspired to challenge the status quo is a safe-to-fail environment without fear of reprisal.
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128 |
