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Sooner Safer Happier, Page 297

You are never done improving. You don’t reach the top level and then stop.


Sooner Safer Happier, Page 297

Meeting ‘how agile are you’ target metrics does not necessarily correlate to improved outcomes. Usually it produces new labels with the same old behaviors.


Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 297

Because most of us are not automatically self-correcting and because our blind spots keep us from knowing when we need to be, external procedures must be in place to correct the errors that human beings will inevitably make and reduce the chances of future ones.


Never Eat Alone, Page 297

Living a connected life leads one to take a different view. Life is less a quest than a quilt… the relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.


Never Eat Alone, Page 297

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you remember that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world.


Never Eat Alone, Page 298

…make a decision that from this day forward, you will start making the contacts and accumulating the knowledge, experiences, and people to help you achieve your goals.


Never Eat Alone, Page 298

It’s up to each of us, working together with people we love, to make the world a world we want to live in.


Management, Page 298

Unique events… require unique solutions and must be treated individually. The executive cannot develop rules for unforeseen exceptional events.


Management, Page 298

Truly unique events are quite rare; someone else has already solved virtually every problem an organization faces.


The Practical Agilist Guidebook, Page 298

Building a culture of learning takes deliberate effort.