Quotes

Management, Page 242

Titles do create expectations. They do imply rank and responsibility. To use them as empty gestures – that is, as substitutes for rank and responsibility – is asking for trouble.

The Rare Find, Page 242

Be willing to pick one trait that matters more than anything.

Atomic Habits, Page 242

It is precisely at the moment when you begin to feel like you have mastered a skill… that you must avoid slipping into the trap of complacency.

Quit, Page 242

…the way that we lead can exacerbate the problems that both the pass-fail and the fixed nature of goals can create.

Never Split the Difference, Page 242

You’re going to have to embrace regular, thoughtful conflict as the basis of effective negotiation – and of life.

Bullshit Jobs, Page 242

…human beings essential are a set of purposes, so that without any sense of purpose, we would barely be said to exist at all.

Start With No, Page 242

As history has demonstrated all too often over the past millennia, keeping the peace is much more important and usually much more difficult than signing the peace treaty.

How, Page 242

To thrive in the new conditions of twenty-first-century capitalism, groups must learn to place the structures of governance in each individual’s hands.

Quit, Page 242

Leaders commonly fall into the trap of evaluating people solely by whether they’ve achieved a goal or not. When they do that, they’re increasing the potential for escalation of commitment.

Lost and Founder, Page 242

The truths we hide about ourselves and our creations stay secret because we bury them in layers of guilt and shame, of fear and self-loathing.