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If you want to become enduring and self-sustaining, you must focus your thinking through the lens of principled thought, and let those values-based considerations inform everything you do or say.
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The new generations… need leaders who help them shine, who help them fulfill their potential at work. Leaders who improve their thinking. xxi
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When two people think too much alike they get in each other’s way.
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…being self-directed is the only way we learn, think, invent, create, solve problems, visualize, rethink, re-engineer – you name it, it all happens within a process of making our own connections.
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…our brain is a finely tuned machine dedicated to protecting the status quo, and trying a new way of thinking or behaving can send alarm bells ringing…
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Quiet Leaders… listen to people as though they have all the tools they need to be successful, and could simply benefit from exploring their thoughts and ideas out loud.
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When other people are able to make their own mental picture of what we’re saying, their brain sends a signal to the head to nod a little. It’s unconscious and it’s universal.
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If you want people to think big thoughts, you need them to feel safe.
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Sharing personal information can help people feel more at ease with you and therefore more willing to think challenging thoughts.
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Being generous invites the other person to take the conversation to a deeper level, away from the surface facts and details, into vision and planning, into higher thoughts.
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