Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 261

…the key impediments to job accomplishment are almost invariably a function of the culture set by senior management – especially the CEO…

How, Page 262

If someone on the team is not performing, it becomes incumbent on everyone else to raise the issue and then solve it as a group, with a focus on fixing the problem, not assigning blame.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 262

Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences.

Grit, Page 262

Our opponent creates challenges that help us become our best selves. – Pete Carroll

Getting Things Done, Page 262

The world is too unpredictable these days to permit assumptions about outcomes: we need to take responsibility for moving things to clarity.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 262

…there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Getting Things Done, Page 262

’We’re all in this together’ is a worthy sentiment, but seldom a reality in the hard-nosed day-to-day world of work.

Why Managers Matter, Page 262

In a modern company, the knowledge crucial to success is dispersed across the employees and cannot all be concentrated at the the top management level.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Page 262

You can whine about it, or you can give of your best where you have the best to give, and reap the rewards of this excellence.

Never Eat Alone, Page 262

Building a community of like-minded people around a common cause or interest is, and has always been, a very compelling proposition in its own right.