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What we do not expect, what we have not practiced, has an advantage over us. What we have prepared for, what we have anticipated, we will be able to answer.
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102 |
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A Badass Business Analyst is a modern day polymath… We are expected to be able to do it all. We are the Renaissance people of today.
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177 |
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…hubris can lead to making brash commitments for more and more and more. And then one day, just when you’ve elevated expectations too far, you fall. Hard.
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053 |
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Problems come with the territory, and they should never surprise you. You should expect them.
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065 |
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Titles do create expectations. They do imply rank and responsibility. To use them as empty gestures – that is, as substitutes for rank and responsibility – is asking for trouble.
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242 |
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Expectations tend to rise with accomplishment. The better you’re performing, the more you demand of yourself and the less you notice incremental gains.
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074 |
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The expectations people hold of us often become self-fulfilling prophesies. When others believe in our potential, they give us a ladder. They elevate our aspirations and enable us to reach higher peaks.
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142 |
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We would be foolish to expect possessions to make us happy, or an economic system to care about our emotional state.
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124 |
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Every manager lives with the fantasy that their team can read their mind. But in reality, you have to make your expectations clear.
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069 |
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…you must invest as much energy into hiring as you expect the team to invest in their jobs.
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083 |
