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If we never have a moment to stop and think, we never have to face that terrifying truth.
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When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you’re powerless.
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Change the routine… and you change the thinking. New ideas emerge.
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Innovation requires risks, people who are willing to think outside their boxes, perspectives from multiple silos, and more.
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Feelings, the thinking goes, are not easily managed and can muck up the stable reliability of the system more than help.
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Developing the mega-force of strategic urgency requires… [people to] think seriously about what it means, and be open to and excited about new possibilities.
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…what science is revealing is that carrots and sticks can promote bad behavior, create addiction, and encourage short-term thinking at the expense of the long view.
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For complex or conceptual tasks, offering a reward can blinker the wide-ranging thinking necessary to come up with an innovative solution.
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’no’ is a real decision that induces the party across the table into actually thinking about why they’ve just said ‘no.’
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…because today’s primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.
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