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Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.
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165 |
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Most deadlines aren’t so much deadlines as dreadlines. Unrealistic dates mired by ever-expanding project requirements. More work piles on but the timeline remains the same. That’s not work, that’s hell.
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136 |
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Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort.
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028 |
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…few plans of any kind survive their first encounter with the real world.
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063 |
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A plan is only useful if it can survive reality. And a future filled with unknowns is everyone’s reality.
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063 |
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We should also come to accept the reality of changing our minds.
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153 |
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The illusion of control is more persuasive than the reality of uncertainty. So we cling to stories about outcomes being in our control.
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200 |
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Knowledge is nothing unless it is shared… knowledge for knowledge’s sake is a wonderful ideal, but in reality, it is the transmission of understanding that is the very basis of civilization.
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007 |
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Only through interaction and active engagement in the real world do we discover ourselves.
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170 |
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Denial is the unconscious calculus that if an unpleasant reality were true, it would be too terrible, so therefore it cannot be true.
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002 |
