Quotes

How, Page 294

Passion is the light shining through everything; it makes it that much better.

The Practical Agilist Guidebook, Page 294

Unique skill sets are silos on a team.

Never Eat Alone, Page 294

Ultimately, making your mark as a connector means making a contribution – to your friends and family, to your company, to your community, and most important, to the world…

Thanks for the Feedback, Page 294

…you can’t ‘metric’ your way around the fact that feedback is a relationship-based, judgment-laced process.

Never Eat Alone, Page 294

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so the world will at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it. – Harold Kushner

Thanks for the Feedback, Page 294

…feedback lives (or dies) amid the trust, credibility, relationship, and communications skills between giver and receiver.

Influence, Page 294

Once we make a choice or take a stand, we encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to think and behave consistently with that commitment.

Influence, Page 294

The drive to be (and look) consistent constitutes a potent driving force, often causing us to act in ways contrary to our own best interest.

Influence, Page 295

Without [consistency], our lives would be difficult, erratic, and disjointed.

Inspired, Page 295

…it is all too easy to institute processes that govern how you produce products that can bring innovation to a grinding halt.