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Data is dangerously prone to creating measurement cultures. But what we really need is effectiveness culture.
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126 |
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The greatest danger of being overwhelmed is not that you will fail to meet your goals, but that you will fail to think at your best and give birth to your best ideas.
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127 |
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…attachment to procedure instead of purpose offers a clear example of the dangers of prizing efficiency over adaptability.
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107 |
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The most dangerous time in the hiring process is after someone has given notice at her previous organization and hasn’t yet started at yours.
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080 |
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There’s greater danger of screwing up because of too much money than because of too little.
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100 |
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…we’re biologically wired to sense danger. The result is that we notice what’s wrong with our lives far more readily than we do what’s right.
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133 |
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What we are familiar with, we can manage. Danger can be mitigated by experience and by good training.
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103 |
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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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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 |
