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…instead of furnishing structure and support… many organizations operate in a cover-your-ass culture that is mainly about avoiding blame.
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175 |
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Often in a negotiation people will continue to hold out not because the proposal on the table is inherently unacceptable, but simply because they want to avoid the feeling or the appearance of backing down to the other side.
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31 |
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…the first thing you are trying to win is a better way to negotiate – a way that avoids your having to choose between the satisfactions of getting what you deserve and of being decent. You can have both.
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150 |
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By imagining failure in advance… you can anticipate some of the potential problems and avoid them once the actual project begins.
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107 |
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Haunted by the specter of death, middle-aged people either succumb to its inevitability or radically redirect their course to avoid reckoning with it.
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117 |
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Sometimes… a boss can avoid open disobedience by simply ignoring a superior’s idiocy and just doing what is best.
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168 |
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The best bosses learn when they can and should ignore the least important demands from others. But some demands can’t be avoided even though they have little, if any, impact on people or performance.
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172 |
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Just as the Sirens of mythology lured sailors toward their song, we are lured to persevering because we want to know. It’s the only way to avoid those ‘what ifs.’
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15 |
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We’d be much better off avoiding easy fun and seeking out hard fun, or hard work that we enjoy…
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30 |
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No one should think they are too smart or safe to avoid the consequences of a lack of character.
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