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Focus, Page 258

The largest lens for our focus encompasses global systems; considers the needs of everyone, including the powerless and poor, and peers far ahead in time.


Sooner Safer Happier, Page 258

A more componentized technical architecture, with high cohesion and low coupling, results in greater agility, as it is complexity that fits in your head…


Flawless Consulting, Page 258

We particularly dilute the value of measurement when we separate the people who evaluate from the people who do the work.


Flawless Consulting, Page 258

Must of what matters cannot be measured, and our consulting needs to reflect that.


Deep Work, Page 258

Deep work is… a pragmatic recognition that the ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done.


Flawless Consulting, Page 258

A social system is a living system and not that amenable to linear or mechanical beliefs about organizations.


Average is Over, Page 258

…the high status of the wealthy in America, or for that matter the high status of celebrities, bothers our intellectual class most.


Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 258

…personality difference have nothing to do with it. Sweet, kind people are as likely as crabby ones to be victims or perpetrators and to justify themselves accordingly.


Grit, Page 258

The origin of great leadership begins with the respect of the commander for his subordinates.


Why Managers Matter, Page 258

The larger and more complex the organization, the greater the likelihood of conflict.