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…you can’t renegotiate an agreement with yourself that you can’t remember you made.
Today successful companies face immediate pressure from new competitors, fast followers, and scrappy startups.
Both successful startups and established companies alike must learn to juggle multiple kinds of work at the same time, pursuing operational excellence and disruptive innovation.
To be truly great, leaders need to expand their focus to a further horizon line, even beyond decades, while taking their systems understanding to a much finer focus.
Decision makers need a realistic assessment of the costs and benefits of a proposal before making the final decision to approve it.
…trust is the essential element of mixing with powerful and famous people – trust that you’ll be discreet; trust that you have no ulterior motives… that you’ll deal with as people and not as stars… 252
The old advice that things will seem better in the morning has nothing to do with daylight, and everything to do with depletion. A rested will is a stronger will.
Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans.









