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Investing your time wisely requires that you prioritize what you do. If you don’t, leeches in the form of disagreeable people and insignificant projects will rob you of your time.

Clutter is one of the major forces… that have to be managed lest they not only diastract but overwhelm you.

It may seem difficult at first, but if you get in the habit of canceling what doesn’t really matter, you’ll be amazed how much better you feel and how much more energy you have.

Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.

Resistance is an active, intelligent, protean, malign force… whose sole object is to stop us from becoming our best selves and from achieving our higher goals.

…much to our disappointment,… Big Data will offer no respite from the unrelenting demand for continual adaptability.

…to succeed, maybe even to survive, in the new environment, organizations and leaders must fundamentally change.

…the constantly changing, entirely unforgiving environment in which we all now operate denies the satisfaction of any permanent fix.

…feeling comfortable or dodging criticism should not be our measure of success… what really matters is succeeding.

…the principles that undergird [mechanized] systems remain firmly embedded in the way organizations of all types approach management and leadership.