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To succeed at their jobs, your people need the right materials and tools, and enough money.
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175 |
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If you are a boss, your success depends on staying in tune with how others think, feel, and react to you.
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244 |
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…there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.
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18 |
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Success is the result of what sociologists like to call ‘accumulative advantage.’
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30 |
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Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write people off as failures.
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32 |
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…no one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone.
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115 |
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Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.
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119 |
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Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we’re from…
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Finish lines are funny things. You either reach them or you don’t. You either succeed or you fail. There is no in between. Progress along the way matters very little.
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Altogether, the pass-fail nature of goals can impede progress, cause escalation of commitment, and stop us from considering the progress we make along the way as success.
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