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…the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain. – K. Anders Ericsson

When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

…on the other side of your toughest issue is worth it: relief, success, freedom from stress, happiness, a high-performing team, a fulfilling personal relationship.

The smart part of us sets up things for us to do that the not-so-smart part responds to almost automatically, creating behavior that produces high-performing results.

Conflict is about issues and ideas, while accountability is about performance and behavior.

When it comes to how a cohesive team measures its performance, one criterion sets it apart from noncohesive ones: its goals are shared across the entire team.

…few organizations are good at performance management, mostly because they are confused and inconsistent about why they do it in the first place.

When employees are miserable they perform worse. They’re also more likely… to burnout, leading to increased healthcare costs and expensive employee turnover.

The Process Principle: Introducing smart production processes to knowledge work can dramatically increase performance and make the work much less draining.