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…real achievement at work requires going one step beyond emotional intelligence: you need to learn to be reasonably emotional.

Apply agility to agility. Start with small teams, small slices of value, and small investments. Achieve big through small.

Activity should not be mistaken for achievement.

…a focus on outcomes, with regular feedback loops, builds learning into an everyday activity, as people reflect on how to best achieve the outcomes, for unique work in a rapidly changing environment.

Achieving competence – in anything – requires experience, exposure, and practice… [it] also requires an opportunity and willingness to learn.

Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few.

Achievement must be measured against objective criteria of contribution and performance.

…the test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.

…studies of research scientists have shown that achievement depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

…no matter what the number is, if you work toward it and believe it’s a possibility, you will not only achieve it, you will blow past the ‘reasonable’ numbers others have set.