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…individual careers can benefit from the gritty work required to recover from a career stumble.
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High achievers’ desire to make a mark in the world is so intense that it usually trumps every other motivator.
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If certain conditions are met and the people inside an organization feel safe among each other, they will work together to achieve things none of them could have ever achieved alone.
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Give us something specific to set our sights on, something we can measure our progress toward, and we are more likely to achieve it.
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One problem with afternoons is that if we stick with a task too long, we lose sight of the goal we’re trying to achieve, a process known as ‘habituation.’
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…concentrate on accomplishing a few meaningful achievements, and once you’ve gained status by demonstrating excellence, feel free to be more assertive.
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…when team commitment to achieving a goal is high, it’s best to emphasize the work that remains. But when team commitment is low, it’s wiser to emphasize progress that has already been made…
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Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write people off as failures.
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…extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.
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To achieve the things we want to achieve, we have to be responsive to the way the world is changing around us and the way that we ourselves are changing.
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