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Inexperienced yet smart people with initiative will almost always exceed your expectations. But when you’re super experienced, it is harder to bypass assumptions and learn new things.
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103 |
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The bolder your idea – and the more foreign the change – the more pushback you should expect.
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200 |
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…an unfixed mind free of biases, preconceptions, judgments, criticisms, and expectations is therefore alive and awake to wonder, observe, process, and innovate. – Shunryu Suzuki
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112 |
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Good leaders forge ahead, break ground, and make mistakes. And they expect the same from their people.
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199 |
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Helping another person to become a competent leader almost always takes longer than you think and is more difficult than you expect.
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201 |
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If you go into a mentoring relationship expecting to change a person’s character you’re liable to be disappointment.
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206 |
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Clients who expect you to turn projects around in an unreasonable time frame are more the norm than a rarity.
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059 |
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When you’re working with first-time clients, this involves getting a signed contract that stipulates what both you and your new client expect of each other.
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070 |
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You shouldn’t expect the job to be someone’s entire life – at least not if you want to keep them around for a long time.
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258 |
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…seeing what truly exceptional performance looks like will help those who are failing to see more clearly what’s expected of them.
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053 |
