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Cognition

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As hard as it may be to recognize a player as one of our Worthy Rivals, especially if we find them disagreeable, to do so is the best way to become better players ourselves.

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…a truly strong person is someone that recognizes vulnerability is not a sign of weakness but is actually a sign of leadership.

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…management will increasingly be the discipline and the practice through and in which the ‘humanities’ will again acquire recognition, impact, and relevance.

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Cognitive skills that amplify our ability to take in and understand information lay the groundwork for becoming a sponge. As we become more spongelike, we become better equipped to achieve greater things.

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Absorptive capacity is the ability to recognize, value, assimilate, and apply new information.

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…collective intelligence depends less on people’s cognitive skills than their prosocial skills.

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Collective intelligence rises as team members recognize one another’s strengths, develop strategies for leveraging them, and motivate one another to align their efforts in pursuit of a shared purpose.

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What really makes a difference is whether people recognize that they need one another to succeed on an important mission.

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In a complex world, mastery of metaphor – a whole-minded ability that some cognitive scientists have called ‘imaginative rationality’ – has become ever more valuable.

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It’s time to rescue humor from its status as mere entertainment and recognize it for what it is – a sophisticated and peculiarly human form of intelligence that can’t be replicated by computers…

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