Quotes

Fierce Conversations, Page 178

The fundamental outcome of most communication is misunderstanding.

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.

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…

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.

Give and Take, Page 178

Otherish givers build up a support network that they can access for help when they need it.

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.

The Speed of Trust, Page 178

When people see you as a learning, growing, renewing person… they develop confidence in your ability to succeed in a rapidly changing environment…

The Art of Possibility, Page 178

The practice of framing possibility calls upon us to use our minds in a manner that is counterintuitive: to think in terms of the contexts that govern us rather than the evidence we see before our eyes.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 178

When someone used to being in control is in a situation they don’t fully understand, they can be blind to their own ignorance.