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Although complacency and resistance to change remain dangers to any successful enterprise, overreaching better captures how the mighty fall.
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021 |
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Don’t take personally what is not meant personally. A lot of times people misdirect their anger, and if you take it personally, you’ll become a punching bag for angry darts.
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129 |
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Market domination produces tremendous internal resistance against any innovation and thus makes adaptation to change dangerously difficult.
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107 |
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…there are few things quite as dangerous as an organization in which promotions are so rapid as to become the accepted reward for doing a decent job.
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240 |
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Alarmism and anger are good to the pocketbooks of advocates of all ideological stripes; consensus and optimism are bad for business.
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101 |
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…the real danger of pursuit of stuff may be that most stuff is harmless, and therefore, utterly seductive.
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208 |
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…we all think our own anger is special. The longer you nurse it, the longer you keep it in your heart, the more parasitic it becomes.
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011 |
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Forgiveness must build a bridge over pain, often tremendous pain. Forgiveness starts in hurt, in anger, in disbelief, in confusion. It starts in hatred.
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014 |
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Making a deal. That’s the business equivalent of letting go of anger and resentment. It’s better than suing, most of the time.
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041 |
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Loss does not cure loss. Rather than closure, revenge gives deceptive satisfaction that can’t free us from the angry, aching place we inhabit.
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038 |
