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Any organization that fails to build a robust learning program… ought to expect that its people won’t get better at their jobs over time and may well get worse.
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228 |
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Once you’ve arrived at the metrics for a given job, the number of hours people work, or how they choose to do their job should become secondary.
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229 |
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Ruthless management may succeed in holding change at bay for a while, but only visionary leadership will succeed over time.
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176 |
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The more costly a decision in terms of time, money, effort, or inconvenience and the more irrevocable its consequences, the greater the dissonance and the greater the need to reduce it…
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032 |
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…[we must] be more mindful of our behavior and the reasons for our choices. It takes time, self-reflection, and willingness.
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053 |
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…most of us, most of the time, are neither telling the whole truth nor intentionally deceiving.
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096 |
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Thanks to the revisionist power of memory to justify our decisions, by the time many couples divorce, they can’t remember why they married.
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238 |
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Demagogues, by definition, need adoring crowds, and they create them by using the timeless method of arousing fear.
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333 |
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The true value of an organization is measured by the desire others have to contribute to that organization’s ability to keep succeeding, not just during the time they are there, but well beyond their own tenure.
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009 |
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The time it takes before a company is forced out of the game is getting shorter and shorter.
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070 |