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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 194

…the safer and more secure we feel, the more attention we can allocate to our long-term goals.


Talent is Overrated, Page 194

Since intrinsic drives are strongest, people will work most passionately and effectively on projects they choose for themselves.


Measure What Matters, Page 194

Corrective feedback is naturally difficult for people. But when done well, it’s also the greatest gift you can give to someone…


On Becoming a Leader, Page 194

Leaders have that sense of where the culture is going to be, where the organization must be if it is to grow. If the don’t have it as they start, they do when they arrive.


The Element, Page 194

…if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.


The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 194

If you want those in your charge to be effective at delaying gratification and focusing their attention effectively, it goes a long way to make them feel aared for and secure.


Talent is Overrated, Page 194

…executives mustn’t complain when their company’s ideas are no better than the competition’s. Nor should they claim to be mystified when employees lack passion and engagement.


The Infinite Game, Page 194

At some point, every single organization will need to make a Flex.


Blink, Page 194

Perhaps the most common – and the most important – forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people.


The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 194

The bureaucrat might be defined as one so obsessed with her organization’s rules that she forgets its purpose.