 |
Team leaders must be selfless and objective, and reserve rewards and recognition for those who make real contributions to the achievement of group goals.
|
220 |
 |
We don’t have to wait for confidence to rise to achieve challenging goals. We can build it through achieving challenging goals.
|
53 |
 |
Achieving excellence in school often requires mastering old ways of thinking. Building an influential career demands new ways of thinking.
|
195 |
 |
…research doesn’t support the view that extraordinary natural general abilities… are necessary for high achievement.
|
39 |
 |
…research suggests very strongly… that the link between intelligence and high achievement isn’t nearly as powerful as we commonly suppose.
|
45 |
 |
…research tells us that intelligence as we usually think of it – a high IQ – is not a prerequisite to extraordinary achievement.
|
45 |
 |
Because the demands of achieving exceptional performance are so great over so many years, no one has a prayer of meeting them without utter commitment.
|
109 |
 |
The best performers judge themselves against a standard that’s relevant for what they’re trying to achieve.
|
119 |
 |
Creative achievement never came suddenly, even in those cases in which the creator later claimed that it did.
|
151 |
 |
…creative achievement is attained in the same way as other kinds of achievement.
|
159 |
