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Talent is Overrated, Page 206

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve.


The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 206

…if a distinction between employees is simply puffery for those in higher echelons – that is, is not being made because of a business need – consider junking it.


Lost and Founder, Page 206

Be realistic about your chances, and do what feels right to you and your team.


Talent is Overrated, Page 206

The evidence offers no easy assurances. It shows that the price of top-level achievement is extraordinarily high. Perhaps it’s inevitable that not many people will choose to pay it.


Leading the Unleadable, Page 206

Improving your skill at ‘how’ to improve is the most powerful of all skills to master.


Talent is Overrated, Page 206

…evidence shows also that understanding how a few become great, anyone can become better.


Leading the Unleadable, Page 206

The exceptional leader knows that he has the ability to improve.


Talent is Overrated, Page 206

…the evidence shouts most loudly… liberating news: that great performance is not reserved for a preordained few. It is available to you and to everyone.


Give and Take, Page 206

…in short-term, single-issue negotiations givers do worse than takers, because they’re willing to give larger slices of the pie to their counterparts.


What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Page 206

…it’s the odd out-of-left-field dissenting voices, the ones challenging groupthink and the status quo, that make an organization hum and thrive.