Quotes

Focus, Page 254

If we see a company as little more than a machine for making money, we ignore… the people who work there, the communities it operates in, its customers and clients, and society at large.

Inspired, Page 254

One of the biggest possible wastes of time and effort… is when a team designs and builds a product, yet, when they finally release the product, they find that people won’t buy it.

Focus, Page 255

Whether within a family, on social media, or in an organization or society as a whole, we are all leaders in one way or another.

Willpower, Page 255

Precommitment helps you avoid the hot-cold empathy gap… the common failure to appreciate, in moments of cool deliberation, how you’ll feel in the heat of later moments.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 255

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. – Peter F. Drucker

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 255

We… tend to exaggerate our ability to forecast the future, which fosters optimistic overconfidence.

Focus, Page 255

…a great leader defines a mission, acts on many levels, and tackles the biggest problems.

Sooner Safer Happier, Page 255

All systems experience entropy over time. Due to entropy, doing nothing is worse than standing still; it’s actually going backward.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 255

At the end of a day’s work, workers want to feel that something was accomplished by virtue of their efforts.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 255

Because optimistic bias can be both a blessing and a risk, you should be both happy and wary if you are temperamentally optimistic.