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At some point, success in nearly every field requires you to ignore an immediate reward in favor of a delayed reward.
…when people believe in the product, they will help you succeed through credible, continuous, and cost-effective proselytization.
In some fields… fascination with the available problems seems to drive excellent performers.
Circumstances do not make up the motivation of the team. It is always the leader.
Machine intelligence is the friend of the educational parvenu, albeit the disciplined, gutsy parvenu with high IQ.
Indifference is a sin of omission – involving what management does not do – rather than a sin of commission, such as humiliation.
For knowledge work, the main cost in a value stream is people. This cost cannot (and should not) be easily turned on or off.
…it’s possible to train yourself to delay gratification – but you need to work with the grain of human nature, not against it.
The companionable effects of breaking bread – not to mention drinking a few glasses of wine – bring people together.









