Quotes

On Becoming a Leader, Page 178

As organizations transform themselves, they will transform the world.

Primal Leadership, Page 178

…members of a self-aware team are attuned to the emotional undercurrents of individuals and the group as a whole.

Denial, Page 178

It is difficult to make a critical business decision when you are… emotionally entangled in the issue…

Inspired, Page 178

A small amount of time up front framing the problem to be solved – and communicating this framing – can make a dramatic difference in the results.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 178

So much depends on executive skill and so much depends on their values, and it is in tough times that the qualities are truly tested and appreciated.

Fierce Conversations, Page 178

The fundamental outcome of most communication is misunderstanding.

Think Again, Page 178

The greater the distance between us and an adversary, the more likely we are to oversimplify their actual motives and invent explanations that stray far from their reality.

On Becoming a Leader, Page 178

To date, organizations have done far more to stifle leadership than to encourage it.

Why We Buy, Page 178

We are beasts like any other, and despite all our powers of imagination and conceptualization and intellectualization and cerebration and visualization, we physical creatures experience the world only via our five senses…

Range, Page 178

…for difficult challenges organizations tend toward local search. They rely on specialists in a single knowledge domain, and methods that have worked before.