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One person with power – the CEO – can make a key difference in even the biggest, stodgiest of bureaucratic companies.
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076 |
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The room changes, the feeling changes the geography changes, in the presence of a man or woman with power. They see the world through a different lens from the rest of us.
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207 |
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[People with power] don’t really know as much as they think about their own organization because people stop telling them the truth.
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207 |
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Speaking truth to power is invariably praised and just as rarely practiced.
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208 |
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…there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.
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262 |
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Loss aversion is a powerful conservative force that favors minimal changes from the status quo in the lives of both institutions and individuals.
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305 |
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We are beasts like any other, and despite all our powers of imagination and conceptualization and intellectualization and cerebration and visualization, we physical creatures experience the world only via our five senses…
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178 |
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Sometimes, it’s the irrationality of combinations that provides their power to grab our attention.
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218 |
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Effective processing what you feel gives you the power to do more than bring your whole self to work: it enables you to bring your best self to work.
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013 |
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…expecting everyone to stay in their silos enforces rigid power structures and encourages leaders to hoard power within their fiefdoms.
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084 |
