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As we champion others, we find our way to mutually empowering relationships.

Whether the task is mental or physical, interleaving improves the ability to match the right strategy to a problem.

Psychologists have shown repeatedly that the more internal details an individual can be made to consider, the more extreme their judgment becomes.

Having invested time or money in something, we are loath to leave it, because that would mean we had wasted our time or money, even though it is already gone.

In wicked domains that lack automatic feedback, experience alone does not improve performance. Effective habits of mind are more important, and they can be developed.

Both training and professional incentives are aligning to accelerate specialization, creating intellectual archipelagos.

Approach your own personal voyage and projects… willing to learn and adjust as you go, and even to abandon a previous goal and change directions entirely should the need arise.

…research in myriad areas suggests that mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated.

Good bosses also spend time managing uncertainty and adapting the company’s strategy and structure by handling overall coordination between employees and units.

…the basic problem of management and business – how to assemble, organize, and motivate groups of people and resources to produce the goods and services consumers want – is the same as it ever was.